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The following is the "complete" version of the conferences
(besides Usenet) that are available on the IGC host
system. For more information on IGC (e.g. getting a
login on IGC), contact 'support@igc.apc.org'.
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agreement
Description: This is a model conference for exploring the potential of a
strudtured process for reaching agreement.
Sponsor: ConflictNet
Contacts: jrhelie
keys: Agreement, facilitation, mediation
haz.phase-out
Description: General information about pesticide phase-outs and
alternatives to chemicals used in agricultural production and urban
settings.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: mthom
keys: pesticides, herbicides, chemicals, alternatives, agriculture,
sustainable agriculture
western.lands
Description: [Civate conference that is fed into the Public Gopher under
Environment/ FOrests/ Western Lands.
Sponsor: EcoNet
Contacts: dyurman
keys: forest, conservation, idaho
** APC Network Resources:
apc.scripts
Description: Contains scripts and macros for use with the IGC and other
APC Networks and discussion about their use.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: support
keys: scripts
conf.manager
Description: Primarily for conference facilitators and network staff, a
public conference announcing topic deletions and other inter-APC
conference networking information.
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: support
conferences
Description: Contains a list of conferences by category, with brief
descriptions of each.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: welcome, help, beginners, hints, guidance, support, conferences,
list
cr.events
Description: Upcoming events in the field of conflict resolution.
Contacts: cnstaff, staffcn
keys: conflict, resolution, mediation, calendar
cr.jobs
Description: Jobs offered or sought in the field of conflict resolution or
dispute mediation.
Contacts: cnstaff, staffcn
keys: conflict, resolution, mediation, classifieds
documentation
Description: Contains online versions (both text and binary) of the IGC
User Manual.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: help, support, manual, documentation, reference
edu.virtual
Description: This conference is used by various classes around the world
in their online instruction of IGC/APC and the Internet. It is open for
anyone to use for this purpose. For more information, contact:
peg:visionary or igc:cyberprof.
Contacts: peg:visionary
keys: training
en.alerts
Description: Short and urgent announcements and alerts for the
environmental movement.
Contacts: econet, support
keys: alerts, emergency, emergencies, urgent
en.announcements
Description: Announcements, news and notices of events pertaining to
environmental issues.
Contacts: econet
keys: announcements, news, environment
env.events
Description: Announcements of environmental events, rallies, conferences,
etc.
Contacts: econet
keys: calendar, schedule, events, dates, happenings, environment
env.newsletter
Description: This is a read only full-text library of periodicals,
occasional publications and papers published by organizations active in
local, regional, national and international environmental issues.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: econet
keys: cooperation, network, news, exchange, issues, values, environment,
local, regional, national, international, periodical, library, activist
facilitators
Description: Help for conference facilitators, including instructions on
creating a conference.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: conferences, directors, contacts
gateways
Description: Contains instructions for sending email to other computer
networks, fax and telex. One topic per network.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: gateways, networks, e-mail, remote, systems, bitnet, internet
gen.classified
Description: Goods and services sought and offered - primarily in the U.S.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: good, services, sell, buy, sale, trade, barter, gen.goods+servcs
gen.internet
Description: Contains Internet resources and documents.
Contacts: researchdesk
gen.internet.b
Description: General questions and (hopefully!) answers for Internet
beginners.
Contacts: support
keys: network, intro, new, faq, help, ftp, telnet
gen.jobs.usa
Description: Job listings in the environmental and social change fields,
primarily in the USA.
Contacts: econet
keys: jobs, employment, work, positions, careers
gn.announcemen
Description: General purpose announcements of interest to the community of
GreenNet users.
Sponsor: GreenNet
Contacts: gn:support
keys: Europe, peace, environment
gn.jobs
Description: Jobs wanted or offered in Europe.
Contacts: gn:support
greenstore
Description: Environmentally responsible products and services.
Contacts: econet
help
Description: Contains frequently asked questions on how to use the
Network. Must use the (g)o command to access this conference (at the
Conf? prompt, type 'g help' without the quotation marks).
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: help, support, guidelines, hints, questions, answers
ideas
Description: Your proposals for developing the networks, including
proposals for new conferences.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: suggestions, ideas, questions, applications, system, econet,
conference, creation, requests
igc.netnews
Description: News about the IGC networks and developments within,
including important announcements about the network. Contains the
monthly IGC NetNews newsletter.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: news, updates, system, help, documentation, features
igc.volunteers
Description: A conference for volunteers helping IGC in a variety of ways,
including the Volunteer Assistance Network (VAN), to ask questions of
IGC staff and each other and share experiences and information.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: jillaine
keys: VAN, help
intlaccess
Description: Contains information on how to access the Networks from
specific countries (one country per topic).
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: international, access, country, overseas, world, foreign, telenet,
public, data, network, gateways, ptt, packet, switching, x.25, x.75,
x.3, x.28
mac.library
Description: A repository of shareware programs for mac users.
Contacts: ddickerson
keys: mac, macintosh, sw, public domain, shareware, software
micro
Description: Contains software- or hardware-specific questions and their
answers. Go here if you are having trouble with a particular aspect of
your computer. 'g help' for questions specific to using the network.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: micro, public, computer, pn.micro
oz.netnews
Description: Pegasus news and bulletins.
Contacts: support@peg
pc.library
Description: A repository of DOS shareware and public domain programs.
Contacts: isobar
keys: ibm/software/libraries
peg.alerts
Description: Short and time-urgent announcements pertaining to Australia.
Sponsor: Pegasus Networks - Australia
Contacts: peg:support
peg.announce
Description: General public announcements relevant to Australia and
Pegasus Networks.
Sponsor: Pegasus Networks - Australia
Contacts: peg:support
pn.alerts
Description: Short and urgent announcements of peace, social justice or
human rights issues.
Contacts: support
keys: flash, announcements, news, rapid response, peacenet, alerts
pn.announcements
Description: General announcements on a variety of topics related to Peace
and Social Justice and the PeaceNet network.
Contacts: peacenet
smhost.library
Description: A library of many useful software programmes used by small
hosts using a dos operating system. It is not restricted to any
technology ie FIDO, WAFFLE, UUCP for dos etc.
Contacts: karenb@gn
keys: networking, africa, asia, fido, waffle, uucp, host, technology,
software
test
Description: Conference to be used for practice and experimentation.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: test, experiment, practice, mess around, try out
web.alerts
Description: Time urgent messages relevant to Canadians.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
web.announceme
Description: Announcements of interest to Web users and Canadians.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
web.cal
Description: Upcoming events, conferences, activities, fairs, lectures in
Canada.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
web.fortrade
Description: Goods and services sought and offered in Canada.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
web.jobs
Description: Jobs offered or sought in Canada.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
** APC Public Conferences:
act.rags.oz
Description: fainforest Action Groups of Australia - news and coordination
of activities.
Sponsor: Pegasus Networks - Australia
Contacts: peg:rainfaus
keys: forests
act.research
Description: Action-research and social ecology forum.
keys: community, proactive, proaction, action.research, society
act.usa.ca
Description: Peace movement and other social change activities in
California.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
act.usa.dc
Description: Peace movement and other social change activities in
Washington, DC.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: ebecker
keys: dc, d.c., district, columbia, washington, calendar, research,
contacts
act.usa.ga
Description: For Georgia users to dicuss local issues, events, organizing.
Contacts: mendicott
act.usa.ia
Description: Peace movement and other social change activities in Iowa.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: jrobinson, dclar
keys: iowa, statewide, midwest, activists, organizations, networks,
peaceinstitute, stanleyfound, iapeaceinfoserv, bwiowaproj, eastiowacopy
act.usa.il
Description: Peace movement and other social change activities in Chicago,
Illinois.
act.usa.ma
Description: Regional conference for discussing local events and issues in
Massachusetts, and for local organizing.
keys: boston, cambridge
act.usa.nw
Description: Information exchange for events of particular interest to
those who live in the Pacific Northwest.
act.usa.nyc
Description: Issues and discussion of interest to users in the New York
City area.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: nhancock
keys: newyork, long, island, peace, activists, newengland, new,
gen.nyc+vic
act.usa.oh
Description: Peace movement and other social change activities in Ohio.
Sponsor: Peace Studies Consortium of Ohio Colleges and Universities
Contacts: hfrederick
keys: ohio, peace, movement, peace, studies, colleges, universities
act.wb94
Description: For groups around the world to post information about actions
and campaigns planned for the 50th Anniversary of hte Bretton Woods
Institutions (World Bank [WB] and International Monetary Fund [IMF]).
Contacts: caid@gn
keys: World Bank, Interational Monetary Fund, WB, IMF, economics,
development, debt
afm.forum
Description: Forum for the Academy of Family Mediators, including
organizational materials and Academy-specific announcements.
Sponsor: Academy of Family Mediators
Contacts: cnstaff
keys: academy, family, mediators, mediation, conflict, resolution
africa.action
Description: Ideas, news and questions on current events and political
change in Africa.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: afnet, rbarad
keys: africa, glasnost, nonviolence, nonviolent, activism, portest,
politics, democracy, development, aid, media
africa.forum
Description: News and discussion of events all over Africa.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
africa.horn
Description: Shared from the CIDA-BBS about development in the Horn of
Africa.
Contacts: web:africadesk
africa.news
Description: Contains news articles about the continent from several
sources, inlcluding the Inter Press Service.
Contacts: pnafrica
keys: Africa
africa.souther
Description: News, information and discussion about Southern Africa.
Contacts: support
keys: apartheid, human, rights, blacks
agri.farmbill
Description: Updates on documents related to developments of 1995 farm
bill from organizations and coalitions working on the bill .
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: iatp
keys: farm policy, family farm, farm bill, sustainable, agriculture,
environment, organic, pesticides
amb.anuclear
Description: Conferencia de seguimiento de la problematica del uso e
investigacion de la Energia Nuclear, las aplicaciones militares y los
efectos sobre la poblacion y el medio ambiente, especialmente en America
Latina.
Contacts: eccoord@wamani
keys: militarismo, medio ambiente, radiacion, accidentes, contaminacion,
nuclear energy, radiation, proliferation, environment
amlat.mujeres
Description: Se propone abrir un espacio para el intercambio entre
organizaciones y movimientos de mujeres de America Latina y el Caribe,
en torno a su problematica y sus procesos de coordinacion regional.
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communication
Contacts: support
keys: Espanol, Espan~ol, Spanish, women, Latin America, America Latina,
Caribe
animal.rights
Description: Information and discussion about animal rights and the animal
rights movement.
keys: testing, cruelty
arts.activism
Description: Peace and social justice begin at the core of our personal
and communal lives and cannot be achieved without the sustenance of art
and culture.
Contacts: mschwarzmann
arts.forum.eur
Description: General discussion area for all European arts organisations
and individuals. On the IGC Networks, access to this conference is
limited to read-only.
Contacts: mjack@gn
keys: arts, visual, performing, audio, visual, literature, live
at.general
Description: Worldwide news and networking dealing with the design and
implementation of 'appropriate' solutions to ecological and
international development problems.
Contacts: econet
keys: solar, sun, cooking, water, technology
at.library
Description: A 'database' of documents related to appropriate technology.
Contacts: econet
keys: development, environment, solar, sun, cooking, water
aus.bicycle
Description: Information and discussion of interest to bicyclists.
Contacts: peg:support
keys: recreation, bicycles
ax.ambiente
ax.amlatina
Description: Largely in Spanish and Portuguese, this conference is an open
space for general information on Latin America and is open to all users.
Contacts: ax:support
keys: brazil
ax.brasil
Description: An open, international exchange of information and opinion
about social, economic and political issues in Brazil (in Spanish and
Portuguese).
Contacts: ax:support
keys: brazil
ax.cnra
Description: From Alternex in Brazil, information related to the National
Campaign for Agrarian Reform.
Contacts: ax:support
ax.mercosul
Description: A conference that contains information about Mercosul. Sobre
o processo em curso de formacao de um mercado comum no Cone Sul da
America Latina.
Contacts: ax:support
keys: common market
ax.novidades
Description: Technical support in Spanish and Portuguese, originating from
the Alternex APC host in Brazil.
Sponsor: IBASE/Alternex
Contacts: ax:support
keys: help, ayuda, ajuda, espanol
baltic.news
Description: News and views from and about the Baltic countries.
Contacts: pns:support
keys: estonia, latvia, lithuania, poland, sweden, norway, denmark,
germany, ussr, soviet, union
biodiv.news
Description: Collection of publications in the field of conservation
biology. <biodiv.news> is a daughter of the APC-wide conference
<biodiversity>.
Sponsor: IGC Biodiversity Project
Contacts: consdesk
keys: conservation, biology, species, genetic, ecosystem, biodiversity,
extinct, life, form, natural, area, nature, animal, plant, microorganism
biodiversity
Description: Preservation of biological diversity is of unprecedented
urgency. Continued destruction of habitat may be detrimental to all
plants, animals and microorganisms. More than ten percent of the world's
species could be extinct by the turn of the century
Contacts: awhitworth
keys: conservation, biology, species, genetic, ecosystem, diversity, gis,
extinct, life, form, natural, area, nature, animal, plant, microorganism
bioreg.congres
Description: Organizing our bioregions, promoting cultural diversity,
building alliances and coalitions.
Sponsor: No. American Bioregional Congress
Contacts: napc
keys: gender, race, class, animals, species
brasil.noticia
Description: Contains the news from Brasil newspapers
Contacts: ax:suporte
keys: portuguese, brazil
carnet.alerts
Description: Messages requiring urgent action on Central American issues.
Sponsor: Central America Resource Network (CARNet)
Contacts: carnet, jscott
keys: public, central, hr, human, rights, congress
carnet.congres
Description: Current U.S. Congress activity pertaining to Central America,
including legislative updates.
Sponsor: Central America Resource Network (CARNet)
Contacts: jscott
keys: central, america, legislation, congress
carnet.costane
Description: News items on events in or pertaining to Costa Rica.
Sponsor: Central America Resource Network (CARNet)
Contacts: jscott
keys: central, america, costa, rica, news
carnet.general
Description: General information about Central America and related U.S.
events.
Sponsor: Central America Resource Network (CARNet)
Contacts: carnet, jscott
keys: public, central
carnet.ladb
Description: A biweekly summary of news pertaining to Central America,
drawn from international news services and edited by the Latin America
Data Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Additional subscription required.
Sponsor: Central America Resource Network (CARNet)
Contacts: carnet, jscott
keys: public, central, unm, updates, news, newsletters, labor
carnet.sisters
Description: A conference for sister city projects within Nicaragua.
Contacts: newhavenleon
cdi.military
Description: This conference is for the distribution of materials from the
Center for Defense Information and the discussion of related topics.
Sponsor: The Center for Defense Information
Contacts: cdi
keys: military, defense, arms control, military spending, weapons, Defense
Department, environment, arms trade, budget, nuclear, advocacy
ced.oz
Description: To facilitate communities working and learning to build
'bottom up' green, socially just and sustainable local economic
development thereby increasing appropriate employment, enterprise,
training and co-operative opportunities.
Sponsor: Dept of Employment, Vocational Education, Training and Indus
Contacts: phwildman
keys: ced, community, green economics, TOES, co-ops, enterprise, local
economic development
child.abuse
Description: News, information and solutions regarding child abuse.
Contacts: ncpca
keys: children, youth, abuse, education
child.discussi
Description: Discussion of programs and initiatives to support children
around the world in dire need.
Contacts: cmorton
keys: children/abuse/hunger/poverty/youth/rights
child.news
Description: News and alerts on children in war zones, crisis situations
(including abuse), poverty, addiction/alcoholism, and other forms of
crises.
child.research
Description: Information sharing about research into programs about
support for children in dire circumstances.
Contacts: cmorton
child.rights
Description: Part of an international children's network focused on peace
and children's rights. When children's rights are violated in a given
country, kids can let each other know what they can do to help.
Sponsor: Kids Meeting Kids
Contacts: kidsmtgkids
chomsky.views
Description: Contains articles by MIT professor Noam Chomsky, as soon as
they appear in the magazines Z and Lies of Our Times, but these articles
contain Chomsky's original footnotes.
Contacts: harelb, newsdesk
keys: imperialism, colonialism, media, middle, east, central, america,
politics, opinions, zeta, loot
christians
Description: Christian activities, prayer requests, accounts of the work
of God in people's lives. News of Christian peace groups such as CND and
the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: gn:mgascoigne
keys: spirituality, religion, christianity
cipd.noticias
Description: Esta conferencia electronica de la APC contiene noticias y
articulos de prensa relacionados a la Conferencia Internacional sobre
Poblacion y Desarrollo (ICPD/CIPD), Cairo, 1994, en espanol y portugues.
Sponsor: Instituto Brasileiro de Analises Sociais e Economicas
Contacts: animax@ax
climate.forum
Description: News, information, and discussion on global climate change,
ozone depletion, and other climate-related issues. Contacts: larris
Contacts: larris
keys: energy, ozone, carbon, dioxide, climate, air, pollution,
agriculture, transportation, conservation, fluorocarbons, halons,
deforestation
climate.ghg
Description: Creative design of strategies and actions to control and halt
global warming.
Contacts: peg:ccwa
keys: climate, greenhouse, effect, australia, carbon, dioxide, global,
warming
climate.news
Description: Regular newsletters on climate and energy issues, including
ECO Newsletters from INC meetings, ECIX Project Newsletter, ECIX Climate
Digest, GECR Highlights, and Tiempo bulletin on global warning and the
third world.
Sponsor: Energy and Climate Information Exchange Project
Contacts: larris
keys: greenhouse, energy, newsletter, methane, carbon, dioxide
cmm.ong.doc
Description: Documentos de las ONGs en el marco de la CMM y Foro de ONGs
Contacts: sburch@ecuanex
keys: UN, U.N., Beijing
cn.crnotes
Description: Newsletter article source and repository pertaining to a
broad range of conflict resolution issues.
Contacts: cnstaff, staffcn
keys: conflict, resolution, newsletter, mediation
comer.msul.not
keys: comer.msul.noticias
comlink.presse
Description: Press releases from german newsdesk (Read only).
Contacts: support@comlink
keys: Germany, press releases, news, Deutsch
conseilterre
Description: Documents and information in French from the Earth Council.
Sponsor: Earth Council
Contacts: jpasztor
keys: environment, development, UNCED, sustainable
consejotierra
Description: Esta conferencia contiene documentos y informaciones en
Espan~ol del Comite' Organizador del Consejo de la Tierra. Las
informaciones en Ingle's se pueden leer en la conferencia
'earthcouncil'.
Sponsor: Consejo Tierra
Contacts: jpasztor
keys: CNUMAD, desarrollo, ambiente
covertaction
Description: The conference contains sample article from CovertAction
Quarterly (CAQ). CAQ aims to be a "permanent weapon in the fight against
the CIA, the FBI military intelligence, and all the other instruments of
U.S. imperialist oppression throughout the world.
Sponsor: Covert Action Publications
Contacts: caq
keys: activism, media, alternative
cr.community
Description: This conference is for dialogue and information relating to
community mediation programs.
Contacts: conflictnet
keys: ADR, dispute
cr.dialogue
Description: Current issues/events that impact the field of conflict
resolution or that may be better understood through the lens of conflict
resolution methodologies.
Contacts: cnstaff, staffcn
keys: conflict, resolution, mediation, adr
cr.education
Description: Information about graduate/undergraduate education in
conflict resolution and conflict analysis.
Contacts: cnstaff, staffcn
keys: conflict, resolution, mediation, education
cr.guide
Description: Consumer guide to selecting a third party for involvement in
conflict/dispute negotiation.
Contacts: cnstaff, staffcn
keys: conflict, resolution, mediation, consumer, guide
cr.journals
Description: Enables users to have online access to prominent journals and
newsletters in the field of conflict resolution.
Contacts: cnstaff
cr.publicpolic
Description: This conference is for dialogue and information relating to
the development of colaborative processes in the public policy field.
Contacts: jrhelie
keys: government, facilitated, negotiations
cr.qualificati
Description: This conference is for dialogue and information relating to
issues of qualifications effecting the field of Conflict Resolution.
Contacts: conflictnet
keys: mediation ADR dispute
cr.research
Description: Conference for postings of on-going academic research papers
and topics about conflict resolution.
Contacts: jrhelie
keys: research, academic, conflict, resolution, studies
cr.resources
Description: Resources & materials for the conflict resolution field
Contacts: cnstaff, staffcn
keys: conflict, resolution, mediation, adr
cr.solutions
Description: To develop a practical knowledge base for mediators,
facilitators and conflict managers. This is meant to be suggestive
solutions rather than prescriptive.
Contacts: jrhelie, gball
keys: mediation, consensus, resolution, conflict
cr.training
Description: Information about conflict resolution training programs and
materials.
Contacts: cnstaff, staffcn
keys: conflict, resolution, mediation, training
crossroads
Description: This conference contains articles from "CrossRoads".
"CrossRoads" is published to promote a candid appraisal of new
realities; to foster dialogue on the U.S. left; to push forward the
development of effective strategies for progressive/socialist action.
Sponsor: CrossRoads Magazine
Contacts: ises
keys: politics/left/anti-racism/peace/ises/immigration/rights/minorities
dev.communitie
Description: Provides a forum for people who live in or are interested in
communities, here defined as a group of people living together out of
choice and the belief that the collective is more important than the
individual.
Sponsor: GreenNet
keys: intentional community, co-housing, cooperatives, mutual housing,
collective, commune
dev.education
Description: A forum for people working in development/global education
(formal & informal) to exchange news, views and plans and to facilitate
cooperation.
Sponsor: European Development Education Network
Contacts: eden@gn
keys: education, conscientisation, sensibilisation, development, JPIC,
awareness
dev.humansettl
Description: Information concerning human settlements, encompassing all
the structures and processes associated with the human habitat. Focus
will be on presenting items that deal with the problems of the world's
cities, towns and villages.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:robrien
keys: development, settlements
dev.hunger
Description: Issues, events and activities concerning world hunger.
keys: africa, third, world, project, famine, drought, economics,
development
dev.internatio
Description: International development issues.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
keys: development
dev.rural
Description: How to aid medical, engineering, educational and other
problems in rural areas throughout the world with telecommunications.
Contacts: econet
keys: development, poor, peacecorps, international
dev.sustain
Description: Ecologically Sustainable Development issues, government,
non-government and UN reports that contribute to the ESD debate in
Australasia.
Contacts: support@peg
keys: ecology, esd, UNCED, sustainable, development, economics,
employment, unemployment
dev.urban
Description: Environmental issues concerning towns & cities.
Sponsor: Friends of the Earth
Contacts: gn:foecities
keys: traffic, transportation, urban, planning, land use, pollution,
parks, community, waste
dev.worldbank
Description: News and discussion of World Bank activities and their impact
on the environment, development and economics of the world, especially
third world countries.
dev.youth
Description: Discussions about the youth program "Beyond UNCED" Maintained
by the contact person in each region.
Contacts: chasque!redesur
keys: development
dh.amlatina
Description: Sera alimentada por las instituciones CRIES, ALAI, IBASE e
INSTITUTO TERCER MUNDO con informaciones relevantes sobre el proceso de
preparacion de la Conferencia Mundial de Derechos Humanos, la
realizacion de la misma y el seguimiento de sus resultados.
Sponsor: CRIES-ALAI-IBASE-ITM
Contacts: info@alai.ec
keys: derechos humanos, America Latina
dh.centroam
Description: Primarily in Spanish, human rights news and information
pertaining to Central America.
keys: human/rights/derechos/humanos/nicaragua/guatemala/salvador
dh.mujer
Description: Derechos humanos de mujeres.
Contacts: hrcoord
dh.nicaragua
Description: Sobre derechos humanos en Nicaragua.
Contacts: ni:support
dh.panama
Description: Discusion sobre los derechos humanos en Panama. (In Spanish.)
Contacts: codehuca@ni
disarm.armstra
Description: Exchange of information between all groups and individuals
that collect information about arms exports and military production.
Sponsor: GreenNet
disarm.ctb-npt
Description: For NGOs preparing special NGO report on possible amendments
of the current treaties CTB (Comprehensive Test Ban) and NPT
(Non-Proliferation Treaty) and a place to elaborate approaches for
strengthening the int'l regime of non-proliferation.
Contacts: glas!iakim
keys: tests, weapons, nuclear, arms, control
disarm.nucfaci
Description: Environmental effects of nuclear weapons production
facilities, and actions organized against them.
Sponsor: National Mobilization for Survival
Contacts: mobenat
disarm.trans
Description: Information about the transport of nuclear materials and
warheads by road, air, rail, sea, etc. May include time-urgent
information on convoys on the road.
Sponsor: GreenNet
keys: nuclear materials, nuclear weapons, warheads, transporation, convoys
disarm.worldcr
Description: Information about the World Court Project, a grassroots
organisation ignored by the mainstream media, lobbying the World Court
for an opinion as to the legality of nuclear weapons under existing
international law.
Sponsor: World Court Project
Contacts: pjustice@gn
keys: nuclear, weapons, law, un, who, health, worldcourt
earthcouncil
Description: Documents and information in English from the Earth Council.
Information in Spanish is available in the 'consejotierra' conference.
Sponsor: Earth Council
Contacts: jpasztor
keys: environment, development, UNCED, sustainable
earthtimes
Description: This conference contains "Earth Times", an independent
newspaper focusing on sustainable development and such interrelated
economic and social issues of the international system as environement,
population and trade.
Sponsor: The Earth Times
Contacts: theearthtime
keys:
earth/times/population/development/UNCED/economics/sustainable/agriculture/United
Nations
eco.building
Description: Information about ecologically sound building materials and
design ideas, including the work of Australian Good Wood Groups.
Contacts: peg:channon
keys: environment
econ.boycotts
Description: Lists companies and/or products to be considered for a
boycott due to unsound practices of the company, or unsound impacts of
the product.
Sponsor: Social Action of Madison
Contacts: rattoe
keys: waste, economics, social, action, pollution, nuclear, forest, water,
air, poison, toxics, soil, river, lake, health, racism, sexism
econ.conversio
Description: Economic conversion, conversion planning, organizing,
legislation, base conversion, theory, practice and other arcane but
related topics.
Sponsor: Center for Economic Conversion
Contacts: jwake
keys: economics, defense, diversification, sustainable, military
econ.ecologica
Description: Esta confere^ncia tem o propo'sito de promover interca^mbio
entre pessoas e organiza<oe~s interessados na questa~o de valora<a~o
ambiental, como contribui<a~o ao desenvolvimento sustentavel.
Contacts: pmay@ax
econ.ethic.oz
Description: Aspects of ethical investment from mainly an Australia
perspective.
Sponsor: Pegasus Networks - Australia
Contacts: peg:support
econ.ethinvest
Description: A conference about socially responsible and ethical
investing.
Contacts: web:robrien
keys: economics, money, green, business
econ.justice
Description: Info/stats/studies on such topics as Reverse Robin Hood or
Reagan/Bush era; regressive taxation; S&L ripoff; etc.
Contacts: harelb
keys: economic, justice, taxes, regressive, bailout, S&L, fairness, class,
warfare
econ.saps
Description: For NGOs, trade unions and popular movements working to halt
IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programs (SAPs) and make room
for grassroots alternatives. Para los que trabajan para detener los
programas de ajuste estructural (PAEs).
Sponsor: The Development Group for Alternative Policies, Inc.
Contacts: dgap
keys: FMI, Finance, Reform, South, Debt, Labor, Agriculture, Third World,
Development, Economics, Finanzas, Reforma, Sur, Ayuda, Deuda, Desarrollo
econ.saps.uk
Description: To exchange information on research and campaign work of UK
NGOs working on Structural Adjustment Programmes related issues.
Although a UK conference, NGOs, academics, or any other group working on
this issue will have the opportunity to participate.
Sponsor: Aid and Environment Group and Debt Crisis Network
Contacts: aaidtg@gn
keys: economics, reforms, World, Bank, IMF, SAP, Structural, Adjustment,
Programmes, development
econ.women
Description: To foster ideas and actions towards the creation of an
economic system which is based on other than monetary values. We are
particularly interested in women's perspectives. We welcome ideas from
women which further this goal
Contacts: csc@web
keys: women, economics, development, environment, alternative,
north-south, progressive movements, gender, feminism
econews.africa
Description: Climate Network Africa (CNA)'s aim at making local-global
connections and giving people in Africa the chance to add their views to
international discussions on all aspects of environment and development
in Africa.
Contacts: aheidenreich
keys: africa
edu.2000
Description: A conference discussion the project Education 2000, which has
as its goal the enablement of those who wish to make a positive future
through the transformation of our educational structures.
keys: children, school, youth
edu.eastwest
Description: To foster collaboration among individuals and institutions
concerned with educational development (primarily that incorporating new
technologies) between those countries formerly divided by political
rivalries.
Sponsor: Technical Education Research Centers, Inc.
Contacts: bberenfeld
keys: technology, teachers
edu.online
Description: Information about online educational services and possible
uses of online computer services in education.
Contacts: peg:ggast
keys: education, schools, youth
edu.popular
Description: Provides a global network for people interested in education
for democratic social change - to exchange information about popular
education projects, to discuss issues, to share resources, to list jobs,
and to come to know/support each other.
Sponsor: North American Popular Educators
Contacts: mlarson, jhurst
keys: popular, education, democracy, teacher, school, international,
social change, Freire
eldem.talk
Description: Applying the whole electronic toolkit to re-inventing
democracy, governance, campaigns, politics and economics -- visions,
ideas proposals.
Contacts: elowe
keys: populism, computer, network, teleconference, voicemail, fax,
desktop, cable, video, government, citizen, grassroots, media
elec.democracy
Description: Discussion of an electronic democracy project currently
underway.
Contacts: madavis
elections.usa
Description: Information and discussion about elections in the United
States. Participants are encouraged to discuss and provide information
in an education, nonpartisan manner.
Contacts: awhitworth
keys: elections, campaigns, presidency, congress, senate, access, ballots,
voting, democracy, representation
enb.library
Description: Bulletin provides daily reports to NGOs during official
United Nations conferences and prepcoms.
Sponsor: International Institute For Sustainable DevelopmentEarth Neg
Contacts: pchasek
keys: un unced iisd csd icpd sids earth summit prepcom rio unced csd ngo
energy.bikes
Description: To promote bicycling as a mode of transportation by providing
advocates and bicyclists with political and practical information in
support of bicycling -- the most efficient mode of transportation
available to modern society.
Contacts: davesnyder
keys: bike, bicycle, bicycling, ISTEA, nonmotorized, efficient,
transportation, clean air, water, pollution, transit, urban, intermodal
energy.canada
Description: Canadian energy issues.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
energy.effrefs
Description: A working library of recent reports, articles, directories,
newsletters, brochures and other information resources that deal
specifically with energy efficiency technologies and policies.
Sponsor: International Institute for Energy Conservation
Contacts: iiec
keys: energy, development, conservation, environment, efficiency
energy.eur
Description: Discussion of all aspects of European energy, particularly
energy conservation and renewable energy sources.
Contacts: gn:mgascoigne
keys: solar, wind, wave, geothermal
energy.forum
Description: International discussion on the technical, political and
economic aspects of using energy efficient and renewable energy
technology, and the development and implementation of policies
supporting their use.
Sponsor: International Institute for Energy Conservation
Contacts: iiec
keys: Efficiency, Renewable, Environment, Policy, Economics, buildings,
facilities
energy.mdbs
Description: News and discussion of the energy policies and practices of
the multilateral development banks (the World Bank and the regional
development banks); the Global Environmental Facility (GEF); and
bilateral lending agencies.
Contacts: edfclimate
energy.network
Description: Maintained by a newly created network for Sustainable Energy.
Discussions about the Global Energy Strategy.
Contacts: chasque!redesur
energy.news
Description: Encourages sustainable energy use as a critical part of the
effort to combine concern for the environment and future economic
development, the twin objectives of UNCED.
Contacts: tgray
keys: retrofit, energy, conservation, solar, enet, education
energy.nuclear
Description: News and information about nuclear energy.
energy.ontario
Description: Energy issues specific to Ontario, Canada.
env.alaska
Description: Issues and values current in natural resource management and
allocation in Alaska.
keys: environment
env.biotech
Description: Weekly news summary of biotechnology issues.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: iatp
keys: biotechnology, biodiversity, genetics, germplasm, intellectual
property
env.blueprint
Description: Primarily a reference conference, contains "Blueprint for the
Environment" published in November 1988.
Contacts: econet
env.centasia
Description: To discuss environmental, political, and related issues
pertaining to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirghistan, Turkmenistan,
Tadjikistan, and Azerbaijan, former republics of the Soviet Union. Feel
free to post in Russian.
Contacts: glas:sen
keys: environment, ecology, politics, asian, republics, cis, ussr
env.cis
Description: Up-to-date forum on the growing numbers of U.S. and ex-Soviet
NGO activists pursuing the goal of global environment sustainabilty with
an emphasis on the protection of ex-Soviet eco-systems.
Contacts: econet
keys: CIS
env.cleanair
Description: Issues of air pollution, including government policy and
initiatives to public forum and action ideas.
Contacts: web:spider
keys: acid, rain, pollution, precipitation, air, climate
env.coasts
Description: Coastal issues in California and elsewhere.
Sponsor: Northcoast Environmental Center
Contacts: nec, centralcoas
keys: coast, ocean, beach, access, recreation, offshore, oil, wetland,
bay, estuary, california
env.color
Description: Directory of People of Color Environmental Groups. Full text
searching of this information is available from the (d)ata menu.
Contacts: econet mstein
keys: justice, color, racism, ecology, toxics, environment
env.consumption
Description: Over 2/3 of the world's resources are consumed by less than
1/5 of the world's population. This is a forum for individuals and
groups seeking practical straegies for limiting individual,
institutional and national consumption to sustainable levels.
Contacts: merck
keys: development, economics, resources, conservation
env.dams
Description: Issues related to dam projects. International discussion of:
mega-projects, case studies, bioregional assessment, indigenous issues,
ecological impacts, alternatives, economic and development issues, bio-
and cultural diversity.
Sponsor: Cultural Survival (Canada)
Contacts: web:csc
keys: hydro, energy, irrigation, rivers, watersheds, reservoirs
env.ecolinking
Description: EcoLinking projects in environmental computer networking
covering Global Networks, Electronic Bulletin Boards, and Commercial
Online Services.
Sponsor: EcoNet and GreenDisk
Contacts: greendisk
keys: networks, bulletin, boards, rittner, peachpit, internet, bbs,
matrix, greendisk
env.education
Description: List of selected publications, events & awards of interest to
environmental educators.
Contacts: tva, efenster
keys: environmental, education
env.email
Description: EYFAs e-mail project aims at connecting European
environmental NGOs by having an electronic conference from the 15th to
the 30th of November 1993. Non-European participation is welcomed.
Contacts: snore@antenna
keys: electronic, mail, conference, environment
env.europe
Description: Environmental news and discussion for all Europe.
Contacts: gn:mitra
keys: environment, europe
env.florida
Description: Florida environmental issues.
keys: environment, florida
env.forum
Description: General discussion of the environment and the impact on and
of humankind.
Contacts: econet
keys: environment
env.hawaii
Description: Information, discussion and actions relating to protection
and improvement of Hawaii's environment, including discussion of
geothermal energy.
Contacts: dfisher, epicent
keys: hawaii, geothermal, volcano, tropical, rainforest, ocean, mining,
incineration, recyling, smoke, whales, dolphins, agriculture, marine
env.islands
Description: The conference <env.islands> is a forum for exchanging
information on the World Conference on the Sustainable Development of
Small Island Developing States. The World Conference is currently
scheduled for Apr 1994 on Barbados in the eastern Caribbean.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: support
keys: unced, island, sustain, devel, small, state, warm, rise, ocean,
climate, barbados
env.journalism
Description: Media and ecology. Exchange of information among
environmental journalists worldwide. Founded by the International
Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ), address: 51 rue Laugier,
75017 Paris, France. Contact: v.thurn@link-k.zer.sub.org
Sponsor: International Federation of Environmental Journalists
Contacts: (see descrip.)
keys: media, journalist, environment, ecology, censorship, magazine,
newspaper, television, radio, film, development, plumes et planaete
env.klamath
Description: Information and discussion forum for the Klamath bioregion of
nowrthwest California and southwest Oregon.
Contacts: aalm cred
keys: bioregion, biodiversity
env.legis.ny
Description: To report on environmental legislation in New York state.
Sponsor: Environmental Planning Lobby
Contacts: nyei
keys: New York, air quality, energy, environment, land preservation,
legislation, solid waste, toxics, transportation, water quality
env.letters
Description: Sample letters to politicians, corporations, bureaucracies,
world bank etc etc on environmental and indigenous issues as such
letters are needed.
Sponsor: RAINFOREST INFORMATION CENTRE
Contacts: gn:justgaian
keys: ecology
env.marine
Description: Information and discussion about the marine environment,
including seas, creatures that inhabit them and impact of humankind on
marine life.
keys: marine, mammals, animals, fish, seas, oceans, water
env.mass
Description: Forum for environmental groups in Massachusetts to share
resources, network and organize on environmental issues.
Contacts: envlobbyma
keys: ecology
env.nh
Description: News from and communication between environmental
organizations within New Hampshire.
Contacts: ldyork
env.ny
Description: Forum for environmental groups in New York State to share
resources, network and organize on environmental issues.
Sponsor: New York Environmental Institute
Contacts: nyei
keys: environment/legislation/
env.oil
Description: Environmental impact and record of global oil companies.
Including terrestrial, aquatic, marine and atmospheric pollution;
social, economic and political impact; health and safety, other industry
involvement; public relations and other sttategies.
Sponsor: Earth Resources Research
Contacts: gn:errlondon
keys: oil, pollution, mulitnational, energy, environment, spill,
emissions, global warming, acid rain, arctic, offshore, rainforest,
drilling
env.ontario
Description: News, ideas, action and political policies regarding the
environment in Ontario.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
env.parks
Description: Canadian parks and wilderness.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
env.parks.usa
Description: Information and discussion on partks, both national and
otherwise, and their management.
Contacts: nec, tgray
keys: parks, cspra, rangers, recreation, planning
env.pollution
Description: Pollution issues, including effects, sources, policy and
advocacy.
Contacts: tgray
keys: pollution, environment, ecology
env.recycle
Description: Information and discussion on recycling industrial and other
wastes.
Contacts: econet
keys: recycle, waste, recycling, news
env.recycle.oz
Description: Recycling issues in Australia.
Sponsor: Pegasus Networks - Australia
Contacts: peg:support
env.siberia
Description: News, information & discussion about protecting Siberia's
environment.
Contacts: jseed
env.ukraine
Description: Environmental issues in the Ukraine and discussion on the
problems of sustainable development for the states in transition.
Contacts: ademydenko@gluk
keys: sustainable development
env.usa.ri
Description: Tool for state/local groups and activists in RI. Also forum
for the Env. Council of RI (ECRI). May include alerts, discussions,
newsletters, fact sheets, env calendar, etc.
Contacts: savethebay
keys: conservation, coalition, action
env.water
Description: Domestic and international information and resources
regarding water pollution, coastal zone management, wetland protection,
river conservation, fish & wildlife.
Contacts: nec, tgray
keys: water, pollution, wetlands, coasts, rivers, fish, wildlife
env.wildlife
Description: Discussion, news and requests about wildlife species and
habitats from around the world.
Contacts: econet, dzaunbre
keys: wildlife, extinction, habitat, species
execution.aler
Description: Information about upcoming executions.
Sponsor: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Contacts: abolition
keys: execution, alerts, human, rights, death, penalty
exyugo.refugee
Description: News for and about people who have been forced to leave the
ex-Yugoslavian region, and wish to contact those left behind - and vice
versa. Also for contact between those within the region, and between
those abroad.
Contacts: gn:support
keys: refugees, exile, contact, family, news, human, rights
for.canada
Description: Canadian forest issues.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
for.paper
Description: Social and environmental impacts of tree plantations. Mainly
in English. See also for.plantation, which is mainly in Spanish and
Portuguese.
Contacts: ax:suporte
keys: forests, paper, rainforests, economics
for.plan.usa
Description: Discussion and information on forests and their protection.
Contacts: econet, dzaunbre
keys: national, forest, planning, trees
for.plantation
Description: Social and environmental impacts of tree plantations. Mainly
in Spanish and Portuguese. See also for.paper, mainly in English.
Contacts: chasque:ngonet
keys: rainforests
for.usa.ca
Description: Information on Californian forests.
Contacts: nec
keys: forests, california, deforestation
forest.oz
Description: Forestry issues in Australia.
Sponsor: North East Forest Alliance
Contacts: peg:support
keys: rainforests
friede.allg
Description: Informationen und Diskussionen zu Frieden, Friedensarbeit,
Kriegen und Buergerkriegen in deutscher Sprache. (Information and
discussion about peace, peace work, wars, and civil wars. In German.)
Contacts: support@comlink
gen.aidsinfo
Description: Discussion of issues relating to AIDS.
keys: gay, disease, health
gen.anarchism
Description: Information and discussion regarding the anarchist and
anti-authoritarian movement and non-hierarchical organizing.
Contacts: jmorris
keys: affinity, autonomy, syndicalist, socialism, collective, anarchy
gen.art
Description: Discussion of art.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: art, artist
gen.asciiart
Description: A place to share and explore the power of e-messages in a
creative way. This is the place to post ascii pictures, special ascii
fonts, animations, emoticons (smilies), articles on how to create such
messages or any other creative stuff you want to share.
Contacts: elahav
keys: skills, drawing
gen.astrology
Description: Discussion and update on astrology, including regular sun
sign reports.
Contacts: peg:mervh
keys: planets, heavents, mysticism, metaphysical, earth
gen.bigbro
Description: State security activities, surveillance, tapping, controls
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: media, censorship, social, justice
gen.cybercultu
Description: A forum and collection of key articles concerned with
data-networking, virtual reality, multi-media, computers (esp. Apple
Mac), distance learning and other aspects of "cyber" culture, including
cyberpunk.
Contacts: peg:visionary
keys: arts, media, education, telecomms, entertainment, virtual reality
news
gen.diffable
Description: Discussion of issues pertaining to differently abled issues.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: disabled, handicapped, disability
gen.fundraisin
Description: A space for small and progressive groups to exchange ideas
and experiences on fundraising.
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: nosci@web
keys: publicity, low budget, grants, money
gen.gaylesbian
Description: Discussion of issues pertaining to gays and lesbians.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer
gen.healing
Description: Complementary and/or alternative health care therapies that
are currently available worldwide.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
gen.histdates
Description: Files of significant, cultural, historical & noteworthy
events in history.
Contacts: hmuskat
keys: calendar, event, history, culture, politics, chronological,
historical, news, media, data, download, almanac, chronology, list, time
gen.humor
Description: Discussion and sharing of humor.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
gen.islam
Description: Information and discussion about issues relating to Islam.
News and views concerning Muslims and those interested in Islam.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: gn:flderavi
gen.islands
Description: Contains dossiers on each of the island states participating
in the UN World Conference on Sustainable Development of Small Island
Developing States. The World Conference is currently scheduled for April
1994 in the eastern Carribean.
Contacts: mpeirano
gen.maleness
Description: Discussion of men's issues.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
gen.media
Description: Discussion of mass media.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: media
gen.muslims
Description: A forum for discussion and news about Muslims and
Muslim-related issues worldwide.
Sponsor: Arab World and Islamic Resources and School Services
Contacts: pnmideast
keys: islam, moslems, religion, Ramadan, Hajj, Sharia, Qur'an, Koran,
Muhammad, Mohammed
gen.nativeam
Description: Discussion of Native American issues.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
keys: Native American, Indian, public
gen.nativenet
Description: Discussion of issues related to indigenous peoples of the
world.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: gtrujillo
keys: indians, populations
gen.networks
Description: Information about other computer networks, including log
files of other systems.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
gen.newsletter
Description: Articles for newsletters about a variety of issues. Most are
taken from other conferences on the networks. Pull from here for your
newsletter, or share your newsletter articles here.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
gen.newtools
Description: Discussion of the use and abuse of new technology.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
gen.ngo.news
Description: News items, articles of information, events, resources, etc.
for use by NGOs around the world, working in any field.
Contacts: support
keys: ngo, discussion, news
gen.nicaragua
Description: In Spanish and English, announcements of events in, general
information on, or observations about Nicaragua. More "chatty" than
reg.nicaragua.
gen.opinions
Description: Share opinions and ideas about issues of concern. A general
'catch-all' discussion place. Let loose and tell others what's on your
mind.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: support
gen.organizing
Description: Issues related to organizing-- from an activist perspective
as well as organizing any group activity.
Contacts: amiller
gen.pagan
Description: Conference on pagan issues and information, coming from
Australia. (Online journal for occultists, pagans, shamans, witches.)
Contacts: peg:visionary
keys: hermetics, arts, magick, witchcraft, ritual, psychic, philosophy,
satanism, initiation, runes, occulttarot, astrology, voodoo,
spirituality
gen.philosophy
Description: Discussion of general philosophy and politics.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
gen.poetry
Description: Share your poetry and poetical thoughts with the rest of the
network.
Sponsor: GreenNet
keys: poetry
gen.quaker
Description: Divergent peace and social concerns of members of the various
conferences, monthly meetings, quarterly meetings, yearly meetings and
committees of the Religious Society of Friends.
Sponsor: Quaker Electronic Project
Contacts: jsax
keys: friends, quakers, religion, middle east, nuclear, tax, nonviolence,
prayer, afsc, fcnl, fwcc
gen.racism
Description: Discussion of racism and other forms of color-based
discrimination.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: peacenet
gen.radio
Description: Discussion of radio and its uses and applications towards
peace and environmental work.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: media
gen.references
Description: Reviews of readers' favorite book, video, magazine or other
media item. Also includes general reference materials of use to
activists.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
gen.right
Description: Monitoring activities of the extreme right.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
gen.shortwave
Description: Provides transcripts of news items and more detailed reports
from shortwave radio broadcasts. Uploaded daily.
Contacts: awaldie@web
keys: Africa, Americas, Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, CIS, Europe,
Middle East, USSR, international, news
gen.socialism
Description: For discussion related to the future of socialism, Marxism,
or other non-exploitative forms of economic relations in today's world.
Sponsor: Committees of Correspondence
Contacts: swillett
keys: communism, future, production, distribution, dialectics, materialism
gen.techeffect
Description: Effects of technology on health and the environment.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
keys: VDTs, computers, radiation
gen.telecottag
Description: International discussion forum for Telecottages and
Telecentres.
Contacts: bstn@peg
keys: Telecottage, Telecentre, Telecommuting, Distance Working,
Telelearning, Open Learning, rural development
gen.travel
Description: Support for people travelling, including details of places to
stay, places to see and people to contact.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
gen.volunteer
Description: International volunteer work for peace/environment.
Sponsor: Service Civil International
Contacts: sciusawest
keys: voluntarism, Peace Corps, AFSC
gen.weird
Description: A conference with no rules...
Contacts: peg:support
glasnost.news
Description: News, information and discussion of political change in
Eastern Europe.
Contacts: christic
keys: soviet, union, communism, socialism, perestroika, cis
goodnews
Description: Post and find positive news stories and information that will
give people the hope and inspiration to continue working for a safer and
healthier planet.
Contacts: dkano
keys: inspiration, hope, love, gaia
gp.toxtrade
Description: This conference contains complete issues of the Greenpeace
Toxic Trade Update, the quarterly newsletter of the Greenpeace Toxic
Trade campaign. The campaign seeks to end international trade in toxic
wastes, toxic products and toxic technologies.
Sponsor: Greenpeace
Contacts: nmorgan
keys: chemical, economics, activsm, waste, pesticide, plastic, dioxin,
asbestos, paraquat, ocean
gpty.news
Description: Press clippings about Green Party activities worldwide.
Contacts: socalgreens
keys: media, press, greens, Green Party, alternative, politics, ecology
green.travel
Description: Information about environmentally and culturally responsible
travel and tourism.
Contacts: mendicott
keys: alternatives, appropriate, soft, ethical, ecotourism, eco-tourism
greenbusiness
Description: Issues of socially and environmentally responsible business.
haz.forum
Description: Health and safety issues of toxic chemicals, their dangers
and their control.
Contacts: nec
keys: toxics, recycle, washington, alaska, hazardous, materials, waste
haz.incinerate
Description: Hazardous waste incinerators, waste-to-energy plants.
Contacts: nec
keys: toxics, waste, burning, incineration, waste, energy
haz.pesticides
Description: Information and discussion about the use of pesticides and
their impact on health and the environment.
Contacts: econet
keys: toxics
haz.pulpmills
Description: Side effects of pulp & paper industry and its products.
Contacts: nec
keys: paper, recycling, pulp, mills
haz.trade
Description: Conference for sharing information on trade in toxic
materials and toxic waste. Main contributors are Greenpeace, the
Pesticde Action Network.
keys: Hazardous, Toxics, Waste, Trade, Circle, Poison
headlines
Description: Contains all material mentioned in the login banner
crossposted from their original conferences.
Sponsor: Institute for Global Communications
Contacts: ggundrey
keys: urgent, action, alerts, news, info-compass, note
heal.forum
Description: Wide ranging discussion on the impact of the environment upon
health and vice versa.
Contacts: econet
keys: health, medicine, physicians, environment
heal.oz
Description: Introduction to networking for health professionals and
articles of interest to them.
Sponsor: Pegasus Networks - Australia
Contacts: peg:ggast
health.reform
Description: News and information about health care and health care reform
(primarily in the U.S.). Organizations and individuals are strongly
encourages to post information here.
Contacts: harelb lvpsf
keys: health, reform, single payer, rights, medical, medicine
hiv.aids.issues
Description: (archive) A variety of AIDS issues that came out in
conjunction and as a result of the International AIDS conference, San
Francisco, June 1990.
keys: health
(aids.issues)
hr.africa
Description: For information about human rights in the countries on the
continent of Africa only.
Contacts: hrcoord
hr.americas
Description: For information on human rights in countries on the
continents of the Americas only.
Contacts: hrcoord
keys: latin
hr.asiapacific
Description: For information on human rights in the countries in the areas
of Asia and the Pacific only.
Contacts: hrcoord
hr.child
Description: Information on the rights of the child in regards to human
rights.
Contacts: hrcoord
keys: children
hr.development
Description: News and information on the right to development as
established by the Commission on Human Rights as a basic human right.
Contacts: hrcoord
keys: development, human, rights, united, nations
hr.eurmideast
Description: For information on human rights in the countries in Europe
and the Middle East only.
Contacts: hrcoord
hr.indigenous
Description: To provide a wide variety of materials on the issue of
indigenous peoples and human rights.
Contacts: hrcoord
keys: media
hr.refugees
Description: A conference to post information about refugees.
Contacts: hrcoord
keys: amnesty, international, ai, human, rights, immigration
hr.women
Description: Information and materials on human rights issues specific to
women.
Contacts: hrcoord
keys: women, human, rights
icpd.general
Description: For general discussion and the exchange of documentation in
preparation for the 1994 International Conference on Population and
Development.
Sponsor: International Institute for Sustainable Development
Contacts: lgoree
keys: negotiation, UN, united nations
icpd.news
Description: This APC electronic conference contains news and press
articles in English related to the International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD), Cairo, 1994.
Sponsor: Instituto Brasileiro de Analises Sociais e Economicas
Contacts: scorrea@ax
keys: UN, U.N., United Nations
idaho.forests
Description: Discussion of forestry and land conservation issues in Idaho.
Sponsor: Idaho Conservation League
Contacts: dyurman
indig.rights.oz
Description: Information and discussion of aboriginal rights in Australia.
Contacts: peg:ianp
keys: civil, rights, human, rights
ingof.treaties
Description: Full set of the alternative Treaties drafted and signed by
NGOs present at the UNCED Rio conference. All treaties are in four
languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. The names and
addresses of all signatories are included.
Contacts: mpeirano
keys: UNCED, environment, development, NGO
intl.economics
Description: Discussion of a variety of international economic issues.
Contacts: support
io.yacht
Description: To link up people who live in coastal alternative
communities, monitor ecoloigcal health of oceans and rivers, help
coordinate yachts for peaceful protests against pollution and use of
same for military purposes.
Contacts: peg:gholland
keys: nuclear, disarmament, ships, submarines, mideast
ippnw.campaign
Description: To aid in the planning and execution of campaigns to end the
nuclear weapons era.
Sponsor: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Contacts: ippnwbos
jus.homeless
Description: News and discussion on the issues of being homeless, based on
the situation in the UK to begin with - although any comments/material
welcome.
Contacts: support@gn
keys: homelessness, disenfranchised, rights, mental, health, care,
community, urban, cardboard, city, sleeping, rough, hostels, shelter,
human, civil
justice.europe
Description: News and information from the Statewatch bulletin, the
Campaign Against Racism and Fascism [CARF] magazine, and the BISS
information exchange on the European state.
Sponsor: Statewatch
Contacts: ecstatewatch@gn
keys: policing, law, immigration, asylum, fascism, europol, trevi,
Schengen
justice.usa
Description: Discussion of justice issues in the U.S. Issues surrounding
the U.S. court system will be included.
Contacts: support
keys: supreme, rights, constitution
kids.only
Description: A conference for kids only. (Adults can look, but not write.)
Contacts: peg:fgast
keys: children, youth, rights
labr.airline
Description: This conference is for the purpose of information,
solidarity, and networking among all airline workers in the US and
internationally.
Contacts: mmiah
keys: labor/labour/labr/unions/workers/airlines/transportation
labr.announcem
Description: A general confernce for all labor related ANNOUNCEMENTS which
are not date specific or/and did not make it to the calendar, or are not
locally (Northern Calif.) produced are welcome here.
Sponsor: LaborNet Interim Steering Committee
Contacts: hmuskat
keys: unions, events, trips, programs, workers
labr.asia
Description: Public conference for new and discussion of labor issues in
Asia.
Sponsor: LaborNet
Contacts: labornet
keys: trade, union, labour, japan, china, hong, kong, indonesia, india,
philippines, korea, sri lanka
labr.asianamer
Description: The purpose of this conference is for discussion and
information for labor related issues of Asian American workers.
Contacts: lvpsf
keys: labor/labour/unions/workers/asia american
labr.auto
Description: This conference if for discussion and information about auto
workers and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union.
Contacts: tlaney
keys: labor, UAW, unions, auto workers
labr.calendar
Description: Contains listing of events pertaining to labor -
predominantly in the San Francisco bay area, but may expand to include
other areas around the U.S. if not globally.
Contacts: labornet
labr.cis
Description: The conference contains postings about trade unions/workers
movements, economics and other related issues in Russia/CIS.
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: vbalog@glas
keys: labor, labour, economy, social, life, justice, employment, jobs
labr.editors
Description: A conference for editors of labor newspapers and publications
to meet, and exchange news and strategies.
Sponsor: LaborNet
Contacts: rweinstein
keys: labor, labour, editor, news, newspaper, publication
labr.educate
Description: Discussion and information concerning labor union education
programs.
Sponsor: Worklife Education Resource Center
Contacts: worklife
keys: labor, union, education
labr.employee.
Description: This public conference is established and maintained by the
National Employment lawyers Association (NELA). Its purpose is to
disseminate information about and to discuss the legal rights of
employees in the workplace.
Sponsor: National Employment Lawyers Association
Contacts: nelahq
keys: legal, employee, rights, labor, labour
labr.environme
Description: Discussion and information concerning labor and environmental
issues.
Sponsor: LaborNet
Contacts: pdorman
keys: labour, union, ecology
labr.global
Description: Discussion of labor networking
labr.grad.org
Description: For online organizing, sharing info/resources/strategy, etc,
for graduate students (who like farm workers are not covered by the
labor laws) trying to organize/unionize.
Contacts: harelb
keys: unionize, university
labr.hazards
Description: Discussion and information concerning health and safety at
work.
Sponsor: Labornet Organizing Project
Contacts: mstein/lvpsf
keys: union, worker, justice, resources, ecology
labr.newsline
Description: Published or non-published articles from labor press or
articles relevant to labor.
Contacts: hmuskat
labr.organize
Description: To discuss strategies for union organizing/affiliation and
support thereof. Wide-ranging - can include current organizing campaigns
or ones about to incubate. National/International listings.
Sponsor: LaborNet Steering Committee
Contacts: labornet, mstein
keys: labour, worker, strategy, affiliate, health, safety, media
labr.party
Description: Discussion and information concerning the formation of labor
parties in the U.S.
Contacts: dwalters
keys: labor, labour, union, party
labr.privatiza
Description: This conference is to provide information and communication
on the effects of privatization in the US and internationally
Contacts: dwalters
keys: labor, labour, unions, nafta, privatization
labr.pubsector
Description: This conference is for discussion and information on issues
concerning public workers and unions both in the US and internatinally.
Contacts: floodlg
keys: labor/labour/labr/public sector/labor
law/privitization/workers/unions/politics/governmetn
labr.rail
Description: Discussion of labor union organizing issues relating to
workers in the railroad industries.
Sponsor: LaborNet
Contacts: dwalters
keys: labour, transportation, IBEW
labr.resources
Description: For posting resources for use by labor interested users.
i.e., Labor Notes will download its resource column, video resources
will be posted, speaker lists will be psoted.
Sponsor: Labornet Organizing Project
Contacts: erica, lvpsf
keys: union, worker, justice
labr.teacher
Description: The purpose of this conference is for information on teachers
in the NEA and AFT as well as educators internationally.
Contacts: pbrown
keys: education, labor, labour, unions, teachers, AFT, NEA
labr.teamster
Description: This conference is to facilitate communication links,
solidarity and information for teamsters and members of TDU (Teamsters
Democratic Union) within the US and transport workers internationally.
Contacts: tpost
keys: labor, labour, teamsters, unions
labr.tech
Description: Planning for annual Labor Tech conferences.
Contacts: hmuskat@igc
keys: labour
labr.turkey
Description: This conference is for discussion and information for labor
related issues in Turkey.
Contacts: mbayram
keys: labor/labour/unions/workers/Turkey
labr.uk
Description: UK Labour and Trade Union Issues
Contacts: hmuskat
keys: Labor, Labour, union, trade, workplace, collective, bargaining
labr.video
Description: Listings of all labor videos and films.
Contacts: lvpsf
keys: labor/labour/film/video/union
landmarks.doc
Description: Documents relating to preservation of the built environment.
Includes international conventions, examples of national historic
preservation programs, newsletters, restoration and community planning
guidelines, and other materials. Read Only.
Contacts: pstott
keys: cultural, resource, management, monuments, landmarks, architecture,
archaeology, history, conservation
lbg.marriage
Description: Information and discussion of the efforts around lesbian and
gay marriage in Hawaii (and elsewhere).
Sponsor: Hawaii Equal Rights Marriage Project
Contacts: microbear
keys: lesbian, gay, queer
lbg.religion
Description: Forum for news and discussion about the lesbigay community
and religion. Topics: struggle for lesbigay rights in various religions,
distinctive spiritual needs of the lesbigay community, and lesbigay
responses to fundamentalist attacks.
Contacts: langa@ucc.org
keys: lesbian, homosexual, queer, spirituality, religious right,
fundamentalist, christian, jewish, pagan
lets.canada
Description: News and information for and about LETS (Local Employment and
Trading Systems) in Canada.
Contacts: web:gmeadows
keys: money, green, dollars, community, economic, development
lets.oz
Description: Local Employment Trading System - a money-free work exchange
economy. Australian groups inform and communicate here.
Contacts: peg:support
loot.stories
Description: Contains articles from "Lies of Our Times" magazine (LOOT).
LOOT is published by the Institute for Media Analysis, and exposes
falsehoods, misinformation, misleading emphasis and other biases of the
mainstream media.
Sponsor: Lies of Our Times
Contacts: instmedia
keys: LOOT, media, propaganda, disinformation, Herman, Chomsky
media.issues
Description: Discussion of media, the democratic control of it, and
alternative media.
Contacts: hfrederick
keys: tv, journalism, radio, film, cinema, communications, information
merip.report
Description: Independent, critical analysis of current events and trends
in the Middle East. Excerpts from "Middle East Report", with special
focus on U.S. policy, the arms race, human rights, struggles for social
justice and foreign intervention.
Sponsor: Middle East Research and Information Project
Contacts: merip
keys: political economy, U.S policy, culture, human rights, social,
juctice, islam, palestine, isreal, arabs
mideast.action
Description: Post information about specific action events concerning the
Middle East. General information about the Middle East should go to
mideast.general or mideast.forum.
Contacts: jsax
keys: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi, Arabia, Saddam, Bush, Legislation, War,
calendar, persian, gulf, Iran, Israel, levant, palestine, turkey, jordan
mideast.forum
Description: Discussion and debate forum on middle east politics, views
and opinions.
Sponsor: Quaker Electronic Project
Contacts: jsax
keys: iran, iraq, kuwait, saudi, arabia, united, arab, emirates, persian,
gulf
mideast.genera
Description: Events and issues pertaining to the Middle East that do not
fit into other, more specific conferences.
Sponsor: Quaker Electronic Project
Contacts: jsax
keys: morroco, algeria, tunisia, libya, egypt, sudan, turkey, armenia,
azerbaijan, turkistan, afghanistan, uzbekistan, tadzikistan, pakistan
mideast.gulf
Description: Events and issues related to countries and peoples in the
Persian/Arabian Gulf region, especially Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kurdistan, Yemen.
Sponsor: Quaker Electronic Project
Contacts: jsax
keys: mideast, kuwait, iraq, saudi, arabia, qatar, UAE, bahrain
mideast.kurds
Description: Communication between the Kurdish people and the rest of the
world, including news and information.
mideast.levant
Description: Issues and events of the countries of the Levant - Israel,
Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon.
Sponsor: Quaker Electronic Project
Contacts: jsax
keys: miedast, israel, lebanon, jordan, syria, palestine, PLO
mideast.nafric
Description: News and Actions of North Africa (the Maghreb), including
Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sahrawi Western Sahara, Libya, and
Sudan.
Contacts: pnmideast
keys: Arab, Arabic
mideast.news
Description: Middle East news from IPS and other mainstream and
alternative news services.
Contacts: pnmideast
keys: Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus,
Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Kurds, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE,
Bahrain
mil.accidents
Description: Accidents and incidents involving military/nuclear ships,
convoys, equipment, etc.
Sponsor: GreenNet
Contacts: gn:viv
mil.bases.oz
Description: Information relevant to the capaign opposing U.S. military
bases in Australia and the Asian-Pacific region.
Sponsor: Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition
Contacts: peg:support
keys: philippines, pacific, rim, mideast
mil.chemweapon
Description: Information and discussion of chemical weapons.
Sponsor: GreenNet
mil.oz
Description: Australian defense and military news, information and
discussion.
Sponsor: Pegasus Networks - Australia
Contacts: peg:swinunion
keys: mideast
military.draft
Description: Resources and services for counseling of draftees, reservists
and active duty soldiers, including issues of alternatives to active
duty.
Contacts: peacenet
military.index
Description: Contents pages from defense and military publications are
posted here.
Sponsor: Dfax
Contacts: gn:dfax
mrecht.allg
Description: Informationen und Diskussionen zu Menschenrechten,
Verfolgung, politischen Gefangen usw. in deutscher Sprache. (Information
and discussion about human rights, political prisoners, etc. In German.)
Contacts: support@comlink
muj.beij95
Description: conf. de ISIS Internacional con informacion sobre el proceso
hacia Beijing
Contacts: sburch@ecuanex
keys: mujer, UN, U.N.
mujer.cmm
Description: Espacio de intercambio y planificacion para la Conferencia
Mundial de Mujeres y Foro de ONGs
Contacts: sburch@ecuanex
keys: UN, U.N., Beijing
mujer.com
Description: Espacio de interaccion del Foro Permanente sobre Comunicacion
de Genero
Contacts: sburch@ecuanex
multimonitor
Description: Contains the publication "The Mulitnational Monitor"
Contacts: ei
keys: corporations/internations/trade/economics/toxics/environment
native.edu
Description: Native Education mailing list conference.
Contacts: gtrujillo
keys: racism/native/american/indian/indigenous
native.health
native.lang
Description: Discussion of traditional languages of aboriginal or
indigenous peoples.
Contacts: gtrujillo
keys: native, language, american, indian, rainforest, siberia,
linguistics, anthropology
nonviolent.act
Description: Current information on the practice of nonviolent civil
disobedience, its consequences and news of current actions.
Contacts: peacenet
keys: nonviolence, tax, wtr, wartax, refusal
noticias.europ
Description: News and information about european problematics in spanish
and portugues language, selfwritten by the redactional group and
translated from different (alternative) fonts.
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: europa/anti-racismo/refugiados/latinos/CEE/SIDA/homosexualidad
odrc.comments
Description: To provide a forum for commentary on the proceedings of the
Oregon Dispute Resloution Commission.
Sponsor: Oregon Dispute Resloution Commission
Contacts: jrhelie
keys: ADR, mediation, conflict resolution, cr
odrc.notices
Description: To make available the proceedings of the Oregon Dispute
Resolution Commission.
Sponsor: Oregon Dispute Resloution Commision
Contacts: jrhelie
keys: ADR, conflict, mediation
pax.canada
Description: Discussion and announcements concerning peace movements in
Canada.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
pax.law
Description: Practical legal materials that can be used by peace
activists.
Contacts: peacelaw
keys: civil, disobedience, nuclear, weapons, free, zone, africa,
sanctions, apartheid, treaty, treaties, precedent, statute, court,
trial, legislatio
pax.sanctions
Description: A forum for news and discussion about the use and abuse of
sanctions.
Contacts: jsax
keys: international, peace, United Nations, relief, sanctions, boycott,
human rights, arms, embargo
peace.history
Description: Documents and discussion on Peace History
Sponsor: International Peace Bureau
Contacts: adastra
keys: stories, memorabilia, documentation
peace.studies
Description: Resources for university and college peace studies programs.
Faculty, students and peace activists publish their bibliographies,
course outlines, book reviews, and professional newsletters.
Sponsor: International Peace Research Association
Contacts: peacenet
keys: education, research, conflict, resolution, war
peacewalks
Description: Discussion of peacewalks.
Sponsor: International Peacewalks
Contacts: dechenberg
keys: nonviolence
plants.exotic
Description: Information on exotic plant management technique, research,
and concern between federal and state agencies, and private groups and
individuals.
Sponsor: California Exotic Pest Plant Council
Contacts: sharris
keys: exotic, weed, invasive, pest, introduced, plants, vegetation,
herbicide, biocontrol
plants.news
Description: Contains _Botanical Electronic News_ and other professional
journals or articles in the field of botany. <plants.news> is a daughter
of the APC-wide conference <biodiversity>.
Sponsor: IGC Biodiversity Project
Contacts: consdesk
keys: conservation, biology, species, genetic, ecosystem, biodiversity,
extinct, life, form, nature, exotic, plant, invasive, botany, tree,
forest
pns.baltic
Description: Originating from PeaceNet Sweden/NordNet, discussion of
networking projects in and around the Baltic Sea.
Sponsor: NordNet
Contacts: pns:jim
pns.news
Description: News in and around in and around PNS - Nordnet.
Sponsor: PeaceNet Sweden/NordNet
Contacts: pns:jim
pol.access.usa
Description: Discussion and information on efforts to enhance
communication with government. Material will include ballot access law,
campaign finance reform and government information and communciation
policies.
Contacts: jlohrmann
keys: government, United States, information, vote, federal
pol.bureaucraz
Description: This conference is a place for postings about bureaucratic
style and facts related to it. Implies the discussion and finding
solutions. Special prize will be established for those who always find
good solutions.
Contacts: glas!andyp
keys: bureaucracy, social, life, human, rights, journalism
pol.canada
Description: General discussion area on a variety of Canadian political
topics.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
pol.govinfo.us
Description: Announcements from federal agenicies, primarily the United
States Government will be posted here on a regular basis.
Contacts: jlohrmann
keys: United States, information
pol.immigrate
Description: To report on issues concerning the human rights of primarily
Latin American immigrants and refugees crossing the southern and
northern borders of the United States.
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: human rights, Latin America, Central America, immigration, borders,
Haiti
population
Description: The steady increase in human population is exerting
inexorable pressure on ecosystems around the world. This conference is
aimed at understanding the causes and possible solutions to the problem
of overpopulation.
Contacts: tgray, unfpa
keys: sustainable, growth, commons, limits, carrying, capacity, family,
planning, birth, control, poverty, development
ppp.meet
Description: People's Perspectives on Population International Symposium
(12-15 December 1993) proceedings. This symposium is in preparation for
the ICPD 1994 conference.
Contacts: kareng@gn
public.broadca
Description: This conference is for the pupose of collecting information
on all public broadcasting systems in the US. This includes PBS, NPR,
Pacifica and community radio
Contacts: lvpsf
keys: labor/labour/labr/unions/workers/broadcasting/radio/TV
queerplanet
Description: Discussion and organizing internationally around Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Transsgender, & Queer issues. Its goal is to
communicate ideas and news relating to international queer issues.
Sponsor: Queer Planet
Contacts: queerplanet
keys: fag, dyke, homosexual, qp, qn
rainfor.general
Description: General information and discussion about global rainforest
issues.
keys: brazil
rainfor.timber
Description: Information about RAN's Tropic Timber Campaign and other
information about the fate of wood products from our world's
rainforests.
Sponsor: Rainforest Action Network
Contacts: rainforest
keys: Brazil
rainfor.worldbank
Description: Information about World Bank activities pertaining to
rainforest issues.
keys: brazil
reg.andes
Description: Political, economic, military and social information on the
following Latin American Andean countries: Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile
and Columbia.
Contacts: peacenet
keys: Latin America, South America, Third World
reg.antarctica
Description: Environmental issues related to Antarctica and surrounding
areas.
Sponsor: GreenNet
Contacts: gn:support
reg.bougainvil
Description: Information about and support towards facilitating the return
to the people of Bougainville of their social, cultural, civic,
political and economic rights through strategies to bring about peace on
the island.
Sponsor: Australian Humanitarian Aid Group
Contacts: tabuna
keys: Pacific, NGO, Australia, Indigenous, Journalist, Media, Aboriginal,
law, Academic, religion, labour, unions, politics, medical, medicin, un
reg.burma
Description: Discussion of Burmese culture and history, as well as current
events, including the civil war, Aung San Suu Kyi, and SLORC.
Contacts: strider
keys: Burma, human rights, Aung San Suu Kyi, SLORC
reg.carib
Description: News and information about the Caribbean.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: haiti
reg.china
Description: News and information about China.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
reg.costa.news
Description: Contains news articles about Costa Rica, including the Inter
Press Service and other sources.
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: Costa Rica, Central America, news
reg.costarica
Description: Discussion forum about Costa Rica.
Contacts: peacenet
keys: Central America, Politics, Economics, Third World
reg.cuba
Description: Discussion, news and information about Cuba.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: hfrederick,cro
keys: cuba
reg.easttimor
Description: News, information and discussion about the human rights
violations in East Timor.
keys: indonesia, pacific
reg.eeurope
Description: News and information from and about East Europe.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
reg.elsal.news
Description: Contains news articles about El Salvador, including the Inter
Press Service and other sources.
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: El Salvador, Central America, FMLN, news
reg.elsalvador
Description: Discussion forum about El Salvador. News articles can be
found and posted in reg.elsal.news.
Contacts: carnet
reg.exyugoslav
Description: News of the former republics of Yugoslavia. For peace
acuropetivities, please see yugo.antiwar.
Contacts: pnbalkans
keys: Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Europe
reg.guat.news
Description: Contains news articles about Guatemala, including the Inter
Press Service and other sources.
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: Guatemala, Central America, news, URNG
reg.guatemala
Description: Discussion forum about Guatemala. News articles are in
reg.guat.news.
Contacts: carnet
reg.hondu.news
Description: Contains news articles about Honduras, including the Inter
Press Service and other sources.
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: Honduras, Central America, news
reg.honduras
Description: Discussion forum about Honduras. News articles are in
reg.hondu.news.
Contacts: carnet
reg.india
Description: News and information about India.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: support
reg.indonesia
Description: News, information, discussion and other resources focusing on
Indonesia.
Contacts: apakabar
keys: pacific
reg.ireland
Description: News and information about Ireland - North and South.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: emcelroy
reg.japan
Description: News, analysis or action alerts concerning peace, nuclear,
economic, foreign policy and other issues concerning Japan.
Contacts: fbp
keys: pacific, rim
reg.korea
Description: Information and news about Korea.
Sponsor: Korea Support Network
Contacts: cscheiner
keys: pacific
reg.latinameri
Description: News & information regarding Latin America only. All other
information will be found in country- specific conferences. Please do
not post country-specific information in this conference.
Contacts: hrcoord
reg.mexico
Description: Discussion forum about Mexico. News articles can be found in
reg.mex.news.
Sponsor: Central America Resource Network (CARNet)
Contacts: carnet
keys: central, america, mexico, news, labor
reg.newguinea
Description: Environmental, social and political issues of Irian Jaya
(West Papua) Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands (Gag, Biak, New
Britain, New Ireland, Bouganville).
Contacts: peg:gmarshall
reg.nica.news
Description: Contains news articles about Nicaragua, including the Inter
Press Service and other sources.
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: Nicaragua, Central America, news, Sandinista
reg.nicaragua
Description: Forum for discussing news, politics and actions pertaining to
Nicaragua. News articles should be posted to reg.nica.news.
reg.pacific
Description: News, information and discussion about any Pacific island
countries.
reg.panam.news
Description: Contains news articles about Panama, including the Inter
Press Service and other sources.
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: Panama, Central America, news
reg.panama
Description: Discussion forum about Panama. News articles can be found in
reg.panam.news.
Contacts: jscott
reg.philippine
Description: News, information and discussion about the Philippines.
keys: pacific
reg.png
Description: Environmental, social and political issues of New Guinea.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: peg:gmarshall
keys: Irian, Jaya, Papua, Gag, Giak, Bouganville, pacific
reg.puertorico
Description: Updated information and research on the status of
independence and human rights, including the ongoing economic,
political, social justice struggles within Puerto Rico. In English and
Spanish.
Sponsor: Proyecto Caribeno de Justicia y Paz
Contacts: caribdoc
keys: boricua, caribbean, latinamerica, latino, colony, development,
thirdworld
reg.samerica
Description: News and information about South America.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
reg.sasia
Description: News and information about South Asia.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
reg.seasia
Description: News and information about Southeast Asia.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: thailand
reg.ussr
Description: News and information about the former Soviet Union, Russia,
CIS.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: CIS, Soviet, Union, Russia, moscow, communism, pereistroika,
glasnost, gorbachev, yeltsin
reg.weurope
Description: News and information about Western Europe.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
safrica.ancsta
Description: This conference contains statements from the ANC pertaining
to South Africa.
keys: apartheid, human, rights
safrica.watch
Description: SOUTH AFRICA WATCH consists of summarized newspaper and
journal articles forwarded to OXFAM-Canada by electronic mail from South
Africa. SOUTH AFRICA WATCH is distributed in Canada with support from
the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Sponsor: OXFAM-Canada
Contacts: web:oxfam
keys: negotiations, elections, political, social, civics, homelands, land,
urban, unions, economy
scot.environme
Description: Announcements and discussion conerning environmental issues
in Scotland.
Sponsor: CSV/Green Action
Contacts: gn:greenaction
keys: environment, scotland, united, kingdom, britain, uk
share
Description: Environmental information and requests. Posted information
will be uploaded into the Greenpeace database, Greenbase. All sources
are welcome. SHARE is a central clearinghouse for a broad spectrum of
environmental interests.
Sponsor: Greenbase Canada
Contacts: web:greenbase
sindicatos
Description: El objetivo primario de esta conferencia es alentar a
posibles usuarios hispanoparlantes a compartir informacion sobre temas
laborales.
Contacts: chasque:support
keys: labor
skol.nord
Description: For making friends and contacts with schools, teachers and
pupils from Northern Europe. Feel free to announce about your school and
educational projects!
Contacts: support@nn
keys: sweden, denmark, norway, finland
soc.global
Description: Conferencia con Apuntes para la vision y comprension de la
realidad y las perspectivas de la sociedad global. Abierta a todas las
tematicas que hacen a debatir y tratar de comprender y construir la
sociedad.
Contacts: grinberg@wamani
keys: militarismo, filosofia, historia, geopolitica, politica, america
latina, latinoamerica, debate, discusion, espiritualidad, activismo
sozial.allg
Description: Informationen und Diskussionen zu sozialen Fragen, sozialer
Gerechtigkeit, Entwicklung usw. in deutscher Sprache. (Information and
discussion about social issues, social justice, development, etc. In
German.)
Contacts: support@comlink
speakout
Description: Political speakers bureau for speakers committed to the
politics of social change.
Contacts: speakout
susag.calendar
Description: A calendar of events related to promoting sustainable
agriculture -- includes conferences, events, workshops, protests and
training sessions.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: iatp
keys: organic, biotechnology, conservation, calendar, dates, announcements
susag.farmnet
Description: Collection of information on sustainable agriculture, rural
land degradation, positive solutions, and ideas on transforming rural
land use which will eventually be part of the FarmNet concept.
Sponsor: FarmNet
susag.forum
Description: Discussion and news on current trends in alternative and
sustainable agriculture, rural sociology, agroeconomics, and politics of
agriculture.
keys: agriculture, nutrition, hunger, chemicals
susag.library
Description: A repository of documents relevant to sustainable
agriculture, including analyses, fact sheets, reference lists, reports
and articles. All particpants are invited to contribute relevant
materials.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: iatp
keys: trade, development, NAFTA, GATT, agriculture
susag.news
Description: A newsletter covering the latest news in efforts to create a
more sustainable agriculture policy on a global basis.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: iatp
keys: agriculture, organic, biotechnology, conservation
susag.permacul
Description: Forum to promote & inform users about the importance of
permaculture, a system aiming to live in harmony with the planet,
creating a sustainable regime, improving and repairing the land.
keys: sustainable, agriculture, farming
takeover.russi
Description: (archive) Conference originating from APC member, GlasNet,
about the events surrounding and impacts of the attempted coup in
Moscow.
Contacts: glas:apronozin
keys: USSR/CIS/communism/east/politics/gorbachev/yeltsin/socialism
tech.emailserv
Description: This will be a discussion/work area for anyone interested in
email query services, mail servers, clients etc especially with relation
to serving high cost link hosts. The conf will also be ported to a
mail-list to include all colleagues on non-apc hosts.
Contacts: karenb@gn
keys: email, enquiry, server, client, wais, technology, database, networks
timeline
Description: TIMELINE, from the Foundation for Global Community, tells you
about systems thinking, building sustainable communities, conflict
resolution, and emerging world views. For stimulating reports,
interviews, and reviews try this bimonthly TIMELINE.
Sponsor: Foundation for Global Community
Contacts: fgcpaoffice
keys: sustainable, negotiation, vision
toes.general
Description: Discussion and information about The Other Economic Summit
(TOES), including alternative economics.
Sponsor: The Other Economic Summit
Contacts: toes
toes.summit
Description: Used during The Other Economic Summit (TOES) to share
information about issues arising from the summit. (Will soon be merged
with toes.general.)
Contacts: jsmall
toxics.militar
Description: Information about toxics and environmental problems at
military bases. Co-sponsored by Arms Control Research Center (ARC),
Foreign Bases Project (FBP), National Toxics Campaign Fund (NTSF).
Sponsor: National Toxics Campaign Fund
Contacts: arc, fbp, lsiegel
keys: military, toxics, disarmament, conversion, facilities, bases,
mideast
trade.canada
Description: Economic and social repercussions of the freetrade deal
between Canada and the US.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
keys: labor
trade.library
Description: A repository for trade related information: fact sheets,
press releases, statistics, statements or other pertinent documents.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy
Contacts: iatp
keys: trade/gatt/nafta
trade.news
Description: Summaries of the latest news stories relating to the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and other trade issues.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: iatp
keys: trade/gatt/nafta/environment/commerce/eai
trade.strategy
Description: An open dialogue on trade-related issues. Much of the
discussion may spring from reactions to the news reported in the
TRADE.NEWS bulletin. Anyone can contribute. IATP started the conference
but does not control its content.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy
Contacts: iatp
keys: trade/gatt/nafta
transport
Description: Discussion of transport issues, ideas, discoveries and,
including alternative transportation methods.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: larris, tgray
keys: mass, transportation, bicycle, electric, vehicle, transit
umwelt.allg
Description: Informationen und Diskussionen zu Umwelt und Energie,
Umweltschutz und Umweltverschmutzung in deutscher Sprache. (Information
and discussion about the environment, energy, environmental protection
and pollution. In German.)
Contacts: support@comlink
utne.info
Description: An open, read-only conference for anyone interested in news
and announcements promoting Utne Reader products and services.
Sponsor: Utne Reader
Contacts: gwigley
keys: utne, info, annoucements, utne reader
wcw.ngo.doc
Description: NGO documents related to the World Conference on Women and
NGO Forum
Contacts: sburch@ecuanex
keys: UN, United Nations, U.N., Beijing
web.cafeteria
Description: Discussion on a wide variety of everything and nothing. Post
all your favourite scuttlebutt and gossip on any topic, rumour, or
issue.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
web.cengen
Description: General conference on Canadian environmental networking.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
web.native
Description: Native Canadian issues.
Sponsor: Web - Canada
Contacts: web:spider
keys: indigenous, populations, indians, reservations
women.comms
Description: A place for discussion and resources of all forms of media in
use in many areas of work.
Contacts: karenb@gn
keys: women, television, radio, newspapers, press, media
women.dev
Description: Information relating to local/regional/internationl
development issues affecting/involving women.
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: womeninfo@gn
keys: women, development, politics
women.events
Description: Information related to events/programs/courses/conferences
organized by or for women.
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: womeninfo@gn
keys: women, events, calendar, conference
women.forum
Description: Discussion of women's issues; open to all.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: support
keys: feminism/choice/abortion/era/discrimination/rights
women.health
Description: Information relating to women's health and related issues.
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: womeninfo@gn
keys: women, health, aids, reproductive, medical
women.info.src
Description: This moderated conference will contain detailed listings of
information sources pertaining to women's issues - dbases, live or
electronic networks, books, clearing houses, documents, libraries. If
you have or know of information sources, pls send details
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications -- GreenNet
Contacts: women-info@gn
keys: women, information, sources, poverty, health, violence, literacy,
refugees, technology, policy
women.labr
Description: News/information/discussion concerned with women and labor
issues
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: womeninfo@gn
keys: women, labour, labor, work, union
women.news
Description: News items and announcements regarding women and women's
issues.
Contacts: hrcoord, suev
keys: feminism, feminist, gender
women.only
Description: A private discussion place for women only. Email 'suev' for
access information.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: suev
keys: feminism, goddess, spirituality, rights
women.populati
Description: Information relating to women and population issues
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: womeninfo@gn
keys: women, population, development
women.unwcw
Description: For women's organizations and information providers.
Contacts: karenb@gn
keys: resources, feminist, female, gender
women.violence
Description: News/information/discussion relating to all acts of violence
against women.
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: womeninfo@gn
keys: women, violence, rape, domestic, rights
wwf.news
Description: All the WWF green news thats fit to print: thats what you
would get in wwf.news. As the worlds largest independent conservation
organisation (based in Gland, Sw itzerland) WWF deals with alot of
information and receives alot of environmental news.
Sponsor: World Wide Fund For Nature
Contacts: wwfpub@gn
keys: nature, environment, conservation, wildlife, ecology, wwf, forest,
climate, endangered, species, consumption, pollution, biodiversity
youth.activism
Description: Youth and activism.
keys: campus, youth, student, activism, college, university, internet,
kids, children, school, education, teacher, peace, environment
yugo.antiwar
Description: Discussion about the work for peaceful solutions of the
yugoslavian domestic war and conflicts. Several languages are used here.
Sponsor: NordNet, The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
Contacts: nmilivojevic@pn
keys: croatia, serbia, macedonia, slovenia, bosnia, montenegro
** News Wire Services:
alai.amlatina
Description: La Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion (ALAI) cubre los
procesos socio-politicos de America Latina desde una perspectiva de los
movimientos sociales.
Sponsor: La Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion
Contacts: info@alai.ec
keys: news, communication, noticias, indigenous, politics, environment,
human, rights, movements, social, campesino
ecotopia.news
Description: Timely news from and for residents of the North Coast of
California and Oregon. Environment, politics, economics, drug war,
native issues, women, energy, civil liberties, counterculture. Radio,
newspaper and cable producers.
Sponsor: jcarlisle
Contacts: jcarlisle
keys: environment, liberties, women, native, drug, energy, culture,
homeless
ewire.news
Description: Daily environmental press releases by NGO's, corporations and
agencies transmitted over the exclusive EWire circuit received by all
major media outlets including most newspapers, publishers, broadcast and
electronic networks.
Sponsor: Environment News Service
Contacts: ens
keys: news, media
ips.cuba
Description: Receives news articles from IPS concerning Cuba.
Sponsor: Inter Press Service
Contacts: researchdesk
ips.english
Description: Current, English-language news stories from Inter Press
Service.
Sponsor: Inter Press Service
Contacts: hfrederick
keys: Inter Press Service, news, wire
ips.southafric
Description: Articles from Inter Press Service concerning South Africa.
Sponsor: Inter Press Service
Contacts: newsdesk
pacnews.samples
Description: Sample articles from Pacific News Service (PNS), San
Francisco.
Sponsor: Pacific News Service
Contacts: pacificnews
pacnews.storie
Description: News articles from Pacific News Service. Additional
subscription required. For subscription information, email
'pacificnews'.
Sponsor: Pacific News Service
Contacts: newsdesk
presse.tele
Description: (empty at igc 3/92) Monthly German-language environmental
publication, TELEGRAPH covers German politics, anti-fascism, Eastern
Europe, environment, left and alternative politics, anti-militarism and
new technology.
Sponsor: Redaktion Telegraph Berlin (Ost)
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: technology, transportation, media
prn.radionews
Description: News and current affairs from Public Radio News Service
(PRNS).
Contacts: peg:prns
keys: media, issues, communications, third, world, development,
environment, economics
reg.mex.news
Description: This conference is for news service articles from the Inter
Press Service and other sources pertaining to Mexico.
Contacts: newsdesk
keys: Mexico, CARNET, Central America, NAFTA, Salinas
wfs.english
Description: Articles from Women's Feature Service (WFS), based out of New
York.
Sponsor: Women's Feature Service
Contacts: wfs
** Organization-Sponsored Conferences:
aaid.library
Description: Topics/articles relating to poverty and development from the
perspective of those people directly affected. The topics are articles
published by ACTIONAID.
Sponsor: Action Aid (Common Cause)
Contacts: aaidchard@gn
keys: third, world, development, health, education, famine, tourism,
environment, child, labour, conflict, aid, poverty
aaup.general
Description: For American Association of University Professors members.
Discussion of issues concerning the academic profession.
Contacts: sfinner aaup
keys: aaup, higher education, faculty, academic freedom, academic,
collective bargaining
action.jewish
Description: Notices, organizing, and information requests by and about
progressive Jewish activists and organizations and people interested in
Jewish activism.
Sponsor: Jewish Committee for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Contacts: jcipp
keys: dialogue, nja, jcipp, ijpu, icipp, israel, palestine, palestinian
africa.analysi
Description: Africa Analysis publish a fortnightly bulletin on African
finance, politics and business.
Sponsor: Africa Analysis
Contacts: aanalysis@gn
aia.news
Description: Frontline states. Posted weekly from Harare, Zimbabwe.
Development news; political news; labour news; women, education and
health news.
Sponsor: Africa Information Afrique
Contacts: web:aia
keys: south, africa, aia, news
aia.samples
Description: Contains sample stories from the news service, Africa
Information Afrique.
Sponsor: Africa Information Afrique
Contacts: web:aia
aidstreatment
Description: AIDS Treatment News, a twice monthly newsletter covering
medical and care information.
Sponsor: AIDS Treatment News
Contacts: aidsnews
keys: HIV, gay
aiha.info
Description: Information of general interest to professionals and students
interested in the provision of technical assistance, particularly health
care-related aid--to the peoples of the former Soviet Union.
Sponsor: American International Health Alliance
Contacts: aiha nphhi
keys: health care, medicine, NIS travel, computers, foreign aid, technical
assistance, medical equipment, e-mail with xSU
aiha.med-pol
Description: Invites participation from health professionals and others
interested in health issues. It supports the AIHA U.S.-NIS hospital
partnerships by providing a means to exchange views on health care
policy issues.
Sponsor: American International Health Alliance
Contacts: aiha nphhi
keys: health care, medicine, health policy
aiha.med-treat
Description: This conference invites participation from doctors and others
interested in health issues. It supports the AIHA U.S.-NIS hospital
partnerships by providing a means to exchange information on clinical
issues of interest to the partnerships.
Sponsor: American International Health Alliance
Contacts: aiha nphhi
keys: health, medicine
amarc.radio
Description: Discussion and information about community radio.
Contacts: web:amarc
keys: community, radio, canada, media
amarc.radiotec
Description: Forum dealing with all aspects of engineering relevant to
Community Radio in Australia and Overseas.
Contacts: peg:pbaatech
keys: media
amb.noticias
Description: Esta conferencia contem sinteses de noticias da imprensa
nacional e internacional sobre o tema meio ambiente.
Contacts: ipsinfo@ax
amrivers.news
Description: News releases and other items from American Rivers, North
America's principal river conservation organization. Contact AR about
items in the read-only conference. E-mail: amrivers@igc.apc.org; phone:
202/547-6900.
Sponsor: American Rivers
Contacts: amrivers
keys: river, water, dam, energy, hydropower, floodplain, watershed, fish,
endangered species, river conservation, riparian habitat
amrta.forum
Description: Forum for natural health issues. Primarily involving health
care practitioners, but open to all. A place to discuss, question,
criticize and otherwise think about natural medicine. Contact "Caduceus"
for more info.
Sponsor: AMR'TA
Contacts: mstargrove
keys: amr'ta, ibis
an.asa.agenda
Description: Public conference for persons interested in writing and
copyright.
Sponsor: Artsnet Electronic Network
Contacts: suephil@peg
keys: publish, literary agents, literature
apm.brasil
Description: A conferencia APM.Brasil pretende ser um espa<o assegurado
para o estabelecimento de um dia'logo acerca de alternativas para o
desenvolvimento da agricultura brasileira.
apngowid.meet
Description: The proceedings of the APNGOWID (Asia-Pacific NGO Women in
Development) Nov. 16-20 meeting in Manila.
Sponsor: Asia-Pacific NGO Women in Development
Contacts: wrrc@phil.gn
keys: women, unwcw, asia, pacific, development
arena.mag
Description: Excerpts from ARENA Magazine.
Contacts: support@peg
keys: politics, society, australia, postmodernity, culture, art, fiction,
poetry, satire, cyberpunk
awea.windnet
Description: Developments in wind energy technology (primarily electric
generation) and related issues.
Sponsor: American Wind Energy Association
Contacts: awea
keys: energy, wind, renewable, electric
awea.windnews
Description: Discussion of wind energy, including back issues of the
American Wind Energy Assocation newsletter.
Sponsor: American Wind Energy Association
Contacts: tgray
keys: environment, pollution, water, air, nuclear, toxics, forest,
genetics
ax.agen.eng
Description: Items and documents produced by AGEN (an ecumenical-press
agency) in the general area of human rights.
Sponsor: Agencia Ecumenica de Noticias
Contacts: ax:agen
ax.cientec
Description: Sobre ciencia e tecnologia em Brasil. In Portuguese.
Contacts: ax:support
keys: science, technology
ax.crono
Description: Daily summaries of general news releases from the Brazilian
press, in Spanish and Portuguese.
Sponsor: IBASE/Alternex
Contacts: ax:support
keys: brazil
ax.fondad
Description: Forum on Debt and Development (FONDAD), following up on the
problems of external debt in the so-called 'third world', including
analyses and concrete actions within social movements.
Sponsor: Forum on Debt and Development
Contacts: ax:cafonso
keys: economics, debt, third, world, development
bas.magazine
Description: The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists specializes in nuclear and
arms control issues, international affairs, and species survival.
Conference includes: expanded contents pages, yearly index, history of
the Doomsday Clock, & ordering info.
Sponsor: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Contacts: bullatomsci
keys: nuclear, atomic, military, disarmament, security, environment,
nonproliferation, testing, scientist, clock, war, budget, un, conversion
basic.nato
Description: News and information on NATO's policies, weapons, strategies,
important meetings, research activities and the response of the peace
movement. Sponsored by the British American Security Information
Council.
Sponsor: British American Security Information Council
Contacts: gn:basic
keys: NATO, Warsaw, Europe
bpf.ineb
Description: For discussion and events relating to engaged Buddhism.
Hosted by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, an affiliate of the
International Network of Engaged Buddhists.
Sponsor: Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Contacts: bpf
keys: practise, environment, dharma, social justice, nonviolence
cab.network
Description: Network for Council of All Beings activists. CAB is a deep
ecology workshop/ritual seeking to impart the power of Gaia in the
hearts and lives of those seeking to heal the Earth.
Sponsor: Council of All Beings
Contacts: jpayne@gn
keys: rainforest, group, tribe
carcmn.ens
Description: Summaries of news articles related to Central America from a
wide variety of publications ranging from Barricada to Soldier of
Fortune.
Sponsor: Central America Resource Center
Contacts: carcmn
keys: news, costa, rica, el, salvador, guatemala, honduras, panama,
nicaragua, carnet
ccceis.info
Description: Central California Consortium Environmental Information
System Network Access and Bulletin Board.
Sponsor: Cooperative Inst for Research in the Integrated Ocean Scienc
Contacts: gsharp
keys: human rights, youth, GIS, Environmental, Telecommunications, Net,
Central, California
ccic.fpr
Description: From July 1993 to May 1994, CCIC will be preparing foreign
policy recommendations for the Government of Canada in 3 principal
areas: i) building a framework for our common future; ii) economic
justice; and iii) human rights and democratic development.
Sponsor: Canadian Council for International Co-operation
Contacts: web:ccicdpu
ccn.carrying-c
Description: Info on U.S. carrying capacity issues and linkages among
environmental, population, economic and social issues.
Sponsor: Carrying Capacity Network, Inc.
Contacts: smabley
keys: population, resources, food, agriculture, hunger, poverty,
immigration, energy, birth, planning, abortion, pollution,
deforestation, growth
ced.coops
Description: Discussion of the cooperative movement.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: cooperatives, co-operatives, canada, web, NASCO, NCBA, ICA, NCB,
ICC, SHC, mutual housing, credit unions
cfc.forum
Description: A place for Christians to discuss and post information about
the consequences of Christianity in today's society.
Sponsor: Christians for Change
Contacts: pmoore@peg
keys: social change, activism, missions, evangelism, evangelical, justice
ciis.expeditio
Description: Electronic 'home' of the Learning Expedition into helping
organizations become learning communities, the first online course
offered by the Program in Organizational Development and Transformation
at CIIS.
Sponsor: California Institute of Integral Studies
ciis.gaianet
Description: For people and organizations that share and nurture the GAIA
vision. Home of the GAIA consciousness network. Includes interspecies
communication information. Sponsored by the California Institute of
Integral Studies.
Sponsor: California Institute of Integral Studies
Contacts: mta, rmetzner
keys: consciousness, earth wisdom, deep ecology, eco, spirituality,
goddess, feminism, shamanism, animism, biocentrism, transformation,
religion
citnet.pcsd
Description: Exchange of information about the new President's Council on
Sustainable Development whose goal is to "develop policy recommendations
for a national strategy for sustainable development...."
Sponsor: Citizens Network for Sustainable Development
Contacts: citizensnet
keys: environment, development, sustainable, consumption, agriculture,
toxics, equity, grassroots, ecology, pollution, environmental justice
coc.brettonwds
Description: Invites academics and NGOs around the world to evaluate the
Bretton Woods institutions (World Bank, IMF, & GATT) and consider
proposals for new global economic arrangements that would advance
sustainable, equitable and participatory development.
Sponsor: Center of Concern
Contacts: coc
keys: multilateral development banks, international monetary fund, world
bank, bretton woods, development, GATT
cries.tabcon
Description: Bibliography and indices of regional magazines available at
CRIES. In Spanish.
Contacts: america and wos
keys: information that they have avalaible for users, about central
csd.general
Description: Sponsored by the International Task Group on Legal and
Institutional Matters of UNCED (INTGLIM) to provide a clearinghouse for
information, ideas and notices about the U.N. Commission on Sustainable
Development.
Sponsor: Center for Development of International Law
Contacts: cdil
keys: UN, United Nations, sustainable development
ctb.clips
Description: Up to date information via the major wire services on the
state of the nuclear testing negotiations in Geneva and other related
topics. The conference, run by the CTB Clearinghouse will be updated
daily at 10 am
Sponsor: CTB Clearinghouse
Contacts: ctb
keys: Comprehensive Test Ban, nuclear testing, disarmament
delrio
Description: Conference for school groups and individuals within the Rio
Grande/Bravo watershed.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: gree
keys: rivers, education, monitoring, water, quality, high, schools
dev.foodfirst
Description: "Action Alerts" and other publications from the Institute for
Food & Development Policy, aka Food First--an alternative
research/public ed. inst. devoted to uncovering the root causes of
hunger and poverty, and appropriate and alternative solutions.
Sponsor: Institute for Food & Development Policy
Contacts: foodfirst
keys: development, hunger, poverty, food, agriculture, economics,
environment, Asia, Latin America, Cuba, Mexico, Chiapas, Central
America, Chile
disarm.landmin
Description: For the exchange of information among many individuals and
groups in different countries working to educate the public on the
problem of land mines and to achieve an international ban on the trade.
Sponsor: Canadian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Contacts: cppnw@web
keys: UN, convention, indiscriminate, weapons, anti-personnel, anti-tank,
UN armsregister, human rights, peace, social justice
disarm.seas
Description: General discussion and information for activists and others
interested in issues around Disarm the Seas.
Sponsor: North Atlantic Network
Contacts: fbp
keys: disarmament
disarm.testing
Description: Information and discussion about nuclear weapons tests,
actions of American Peace Test and related issues, including
nonviolence.
Sponsor: American Peace Test
Contacts: aptvegas
keys: nuclear, testing, nevada, direct, action, public, peacenet,
nonviolent, nonviolence
eai.news
Description: A news bulletin covering events related to the "Enterprise of
the Americas Initiative," President Bush's proposal to expand the North
American Free Trade Agreement to include all of South America. Includes
CGI, Mercosur & Andean Pact. Sponsored by IATP.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: kmander
keys: NAFTA, CBI, Mercosur, Andean, Trade, Debt, UNCED, GATT, latin
america, spanish
earthday
Description: Planning and outreach for Earth Day and related activities.
Contacts: econet
keys: earthday, environment, earth, day
eb.envbriefs
Description: Newsletter summarizing significant environmental findings in
academic journals; includes contact addresses. Aimed at an African
audience, but useful to teachers, professors, students and NGOs
elsewhere. Contact ccampboyle@igc for access information.
Sponsor: Environmental Briefs
Contacts: ccampboyle
keys: environment, Africa, African, newsletter
econ.ced.forum
Description: Community Economic Development.
Sponsor: Assoc for Progressive Communications
Contacts: web:spider
keys: community, economic, development, web, canada
econews
Description: The Newsletter of the Northcoast Environmental Cener, Arcata,
California, USA
Sponsor: The Northcoast Environmental Center
Contacts: aalm nec
keys: California, coastal, energy, forests, mining, recycling, rivers,
watersheds, wildlife
ecp.news
Description: News and discussion about using electronics and computers for
peace instead of for the military. Sponsored by Electronics and
Computing for Peace.
Sponsor: Electronics and Computing for Peace
Contacts: ecp
keys: electronics, computing, peace, ethics
ed.campusearth
Description: Campus Earth is a networking conference for college students.
Exchange information on environmental news, issues, projects, ideas &
contacts.
Sponsor: Earth Day
Contacts: krisb
ef!.general
Description: Topics of interest & discussion for Earth First! movement.
Sponsor: Earth First!
Contacts: featherstone
keys: earth, first!, radical, environmentalist, monkeywrenching,
wilderness, wildlife, species, reintroduction
ef.journal
Description: This conference contains sample articles from the Earth First
Journal, as well as other information about Earth First!
Sponsor: Earth First!
Contacts: earthfirst
keys: forests, activism, environment, water, toxics
elaw.public.interest
Description: Public communications area for offices of the Environmental
Law Alliance Worldwide, for purposes of discussing the development of
assistance to grassroots environmental lawyers and their clients around
the world.
Sponsor: Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Contacts: elaweugene
keys: law, lawyers, international, third, world, alliance, elaw,
development, environmental
emagazine
Description: Contains material, short articles, and table of contents, of
the bi-monthly editions of E Magazine, published in Norwalk,
Connecticut. (currently not being added to. There are a few articles
entered.)
Sponsor: E Magazine
Contacts: ean, mstein
keys: environment, ecology
end.convention
Description: Reports and discussion around the European Nuclear
Disarmament Conventions and process.
Contacts: flemunpeace@gn
keys: Brussels, Lund, Berlin, Perugia, Moscow, Tallinn, Helsinki,
Coventry, Paris, Perugia, Vitoria
env.seashepher
Description: For sharing information about the Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society and related topics. News, Action Alerts and Discussion about all
aspects of marine life and habitat preservation is welcome.
Contacts: nvoth
keys: ocean, whales, sea, shepherd, marine, mammal, activism,
conservation, dolphin, seal, animal, activist, active, direct,
confrontation
esnet.center
Description: The Earthstewards Network is a worldwide grassroots network
dedicated to helping us discover and express our own piece of the
Planetary Puzzle. Activities include networking, citizen diplomacy,
environmental restoration and conflict resolution.
Sponsor: Earthstewards Network
Contacts: earthsteward
keys: conflict resolution, citizen diplomacy, environment, right
livelihood, sustainable communities, middle east, gender issues
esrc.pacasia
Description: A forum for the discussion and dissemination of material on
Pacific Asia by European specialists on the region.
Sponsor: Economic and Social Research Council
Contacts: ggsiiss@gn
keys: Asia, pacific, politics, economics, sociology, technology, military,
China, Japan, Korea, Asian, Indochina
fair
Description: Material produced in association with the media watch group
FAIR. This includes: Articles from FAIR's magazine, EXTRA!; Transcripts
of FAIR's radio show, CounterSpin; FAIR action alerts and press
releases; Columns by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon.
Sponsor: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Contacts: fair
keys: fair, media, press, television, activism, counterspin, extra,
extra!, journalism, censorship, propaganda, news
fcnl.updates
Description: Friends Committee on National Legislation information.
Sponsor: Friends Committee on National Legislation
Contacts: sncrom
keys: friends, legislation, mideast, kuwait, saudi, arabia, iraq, saddam,
hussein, bush, news, war
foe.oz
Description: A conference for Australian Friends of the Earth.
Sponsor: Friends of the Earth
Contacts: peg:support
foe.press
Description: Press releases from Friends of the Earth, UK, covering all
aspects of FoE's work in the environmental field.
Sponsor: Friends of the Earth
Contacts: gn:foe
keys: news
for.mahogany
Description: For groups and individuals supporting the calls of the
Brazilian Manifesto on Mahogany and working on the consumer campaign
against Brazilian Mahogany.
Sponsor: Earth Action Resource Centre
Contacts: eartharc@gn
keys: rainforests, forests, tropical, timber, tribal, people, Indian,
Brasil
gate.info
Description: To give people access to information about The Global
Alliance For Transforming Education, its vision [Education 2000: A
Holistic Perspective] and contacts to obtain further information.
Sponsor: Global Alliance For Transforming Education
Contacts: gate, dstallman
keys: gate, org, info
gatt.agri
Description: Agricultural issues relating to the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade.
gcnet.news
Description: The Global Child Health News and Review is a newspaper
distributed to child health advocates world-wide. It reports on
international organizations such as UNICEF and WHO, and features news on
both physical and social health issues of children.
Sponsor: Global Child Health Society
Contacts: web:gchs
keys: child, health, UNICEF, WHO, youth, global
gcnet.round
Description: Published in the Global Child Health News and Review, the
Roundtable Discussion reports the opinion of internationally recognized
health leaders on child health issues such as basic health care,
challenges in child health and biomedical research.
Sponsor: Global Child Health Society
Contacts: gchs@web
keys: child, health, family, mother, youth
gef.forum
Description: An open forum for discussion of materials presented on
gef.report
Sponsor: Global Environment Facility
Contacts: iucnus
keys: ozone, biodiversity, international, waters, greenhouse, gas,
climate, change, NGO, governments, developing, G7, industrialized
gef.report
Description: Documentation on the Global Environment Facility, including
the Questions and Answers brochure on the GEF and the bi-annual
Chairman's Report, etc.
Sponsor: Global Environment Facility
Contacts: gefadmin
keys: ozone, biodiversity, international, waters, greenhouse, gas,
climate, change, NGO, governments, developing, G7, industrialized
gen.biotech
Description: General information on subjects related to biotechnology and
events in the biotech industry. Materials provided by academics,
activists and the industry.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: mthom
keys: biotechnology, patenting, genetic engineering, indigenous rights,
industry, land grant accountability
glen.general
Description: Great Lakes Electronic Network and their efforts to provide
environmental groups and individual citizens with an ongoing information
source, reference facility, organizing tool, support base and network of
contacts.
Sponsor: Great Lakes Electronic Network
global.link
Description: Support conference for Global Link
Contacts: dkano
globalforum94
Description: Area for news and information on the Global Forum 94 event,
originally scheduled for Sept 93 but now postponed until June 94.
Sponsor: Global Forum 94
Contacts: gf94@gn
keys: global forum
gn.ecotopia
Description: A preliminary online brainstorming about the themes of the
festival ECOTOPIA 89 held in Koln, August 1989, and planned for annual
occurence in the future.
Sponsor: GreenNet
Contacts: gn:eyfa
gn.findhorn
Description: Topics of interest to members of the Findhorn Foundation and
its extended family and friends.
Sponsor: Findhorn Foundation
Contacts: gn:findhorn
gp.news
Description: A scanning of environmental news gleaned from major newswire
services.
Sponsor: Greenpeace
Contacts: web:greenbase
keys: events, reports, mideast, toxics, gulf, ecology
gp.press
Description: News service from Greenpeace that carries information about
European stories.
Sponsor: Greenpeace
keys: greenpeace, news, reports, events, toxics, mideast, ecology,
environment
gpm.general
Description: Largely historical and now archived, a conference for
organizing the Great Peace March of 1986.
Sponsor: Great Peace March
Contacts: peacenet
gpn.bulletin
Description: Upcoming dates and minutes from meetings in Portland.
Training related dates to be included are: semester beginnings and
endings; Phase I and II exams; major sminars; Minutes from General
Assembly, Training Committee and Curriculum meetings.
Sponsor: Global Process Network
Contacts: pwcp randee
keys: dates, minutes, meetings, exams, seminars, classes, general
assembly, training committee, schedule, semester
gpn.dialog
Description: Exchange of information and ideas on Global Process Work.
Open to all Global Process Network members; read only to the general
public.
Sponsor: Global Process Network
Contacts: jgoodbread
keys: process work, psychology, coma, psychosomatics, organizations,
conflict resolution
gpn.training
Description: For dialogues concerning training issues. Information on
upcoming meetings will be posted so that people at a distance can enter
the dialogue and their ideas will be included in the meetings
Sponsor: Global Process Network
Contacts: pwcp, randee
keys: exames, classes, seminars, workshops, reading list, curriculum,
teachers, trainers, guidelines
greenleft.news
Description: Articles and letters from Green Left Weekly, covering
environment, politics, labor movement socialism, women, gay/lesbian,
international news and progressive movements and causes generally.
Contacts: greenleft
keys: Third World, reviews, media
gycn.arctic94
Description: Resource area for schools and others involved in following
the Arctic Drift Stream '94 Expedition.
Sponsor: Global Youth Communications Network
Contacts: peted@gn
keys: arctic, aurora, charity, climate, diet, environment, inuit, iceberg,
kids, navigation, ocean, ozone, polar, radio, sled, solar, trek,
wildlife
handsnet.info
Description: A weekly collection of highlights of many valuable policy,
program and resource articles posted each week on HandsNet's Information
Forums.
Contacts: support
keys: low income, poverty, social justice, human needs, hunger, housing,
homeless, health, rural, children, legal, alcohol, drug, abuse, welfare
hca.structure
Description: Activists in CSCE countries chat political and social issues,
reviewing common problems that arise in democratic NGOs, and creating
mechanisms for maintaining grass-roots control. Comments from activists
and organizers are welcome.
Sponsor: Helsinki Citizen's Assembly
Contacts: web:mspencer
keys: NGO, democracy, constittution, accountability, structure, human
rights, disarmament, women, ecology, economy, federalism
hightimes.news
Description: Latest information on all aspects of the war on drugs and the
legalization effort, with explorations of related human rights and
ecological issues on local, national, and global levels.
Sponsor: Trans-High Corp.
Contacts: hightimes
keys: marijuana, hemp, legalization, cartels, police, prisons, military,
crime, Latin America
hiroshima.live
Description: Documents the annual International Telephone and Computer
Conference - a world-wide link up by telephone and computer, aimed at
young people.
keys: japan, nuclear, weapons
hiv.south
Description: archive--In Portuguese and Spanish, summaries of media
coverage of AIDS issues in Brazil.
Contacts: ax:support
keys: health, aids, brazil
(ax.aids)
hrnet.admin
Description: Administrative, technical and support questions for HRNet
conferences.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
keys: human rights, support, technical assistance, administrative,
questions
hrnet.africa
Description: Human rights issues in Africa.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.americas
Description: Human rights issues in the Americas.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
keys: South America, North America
hrnet.asia-pac
Description: Human rights issues in Asia and the Pacific.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.children
Description: Human rights issues concerning children.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.conobjec
Description: Human rights issues concerning conscientious objection.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
keys: peace, draft, pacifist, pacifism
hrnet.develop
Description: Human rights issues concerning development.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.educatio
Description: Materials covering all aspects of human rights education.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.eur-mide
Description: Human rights issues in Europe and the Middle East.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.indigen
Description: Human rights issues concerning indigenous peoples.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.intllaw
Description: Human rights issues in international law.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
keys: legal
hrnet.minority
Description: This HRNet conference is devoted to minority rights issues on
an international scope. The range of information does not include
indigenous rights. Please see the appopriate HRNet conference for
indigenous information.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
keys: human rights
hrnet.ngo-gen
Description: Human rights issues of general interest to NGOs.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.racism
Description: Materials concerning racism and xenophobia as they pertain to
human rights.
Sponsor: Humran Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.ref-migr
Description: Human rights issues concerning refugees and migration.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
hrnet.un-doc
Description: Offical documents of the United Nations concerning human
rights issues.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
keys: UN, U.N.
hrnet.un-gen
Description: General human rights information regarding the United
Nations.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
keys: UN, U.N.
hrnet.women
Description: Human rights issues concerning women.
Sponsor: Human Rights Network
Contacts: debra@comlink
huxley.forum
Description: Public exchange of information, ideas and work evolving from
the Aldous Huxley Centennial Conference, sponsored by Laura Huxley's
"Children: Our Ultimate Investment" Foundation.
Sponsor: Laura Huxley's "Children: Our Ultimate Investment" F'ndation
Contacts: vivfeyer
keys: children, family, health, birth, youth, future, pregnancy,
population, huxley, women, philosophy, psychology, spirituality
ica.dialogue
Description: Informs those interested in the Institute of Cultural Affairs
as to what is going on with supporters in their fields of interest.
Sponsor: Institute of Cultural Affairs
Contacts: icanewyork, icap
keys: global, human, development, organizational, transformation, grass,
roots, consensus
ica.ocf
Description: Preparations for ICA's international conference, Our Common
Future in an Environment of Change, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1990.
Sponsor: Institute of Cultural Affairs
Contacts: icaseattle, ican
keys: global, vision, change, agents, story, learning, process, release,
creativity, motivation, global, culture, community, ecology,
alternative, mo
ica.otn
Description: Conference on initiating a training and certification program
for people interested in leading ICA courses/workshops
Sponsor: Institute of Cultural Affairs
Contacts: icanewyork, icah
keys: global, vision, change agents, story, learning, process, release,
creativity, motivation, global, culture, image, participation,
alternative
icpd.canada
Description: Discussion area for Canadian National Advisory Coundil
members, its Secretariat at UNA Canada, and all NGOs interested in
sharing their views about the ICPD and population issues to help
determine NGO/NAC priorities and positions. NAC documents posted.
Sponsor: Canadian National Advisory Council for the ICPD
Contacts: web:unac
keys: population, NGO, Canada
iearn.sharenet
Description: Index of the ShareNet database of Learning Activity Packets
(LAPs). It will also be used for discussion of LAPs, and as a general
discussion area for users of LAPs. For more info, contact Catherine Camp
at <ccamp>
Contacts: ccamp
keys: education, alternative, school, curriculum, individual, learning,
k-12, secondary
igl.94
Description: Details and discussion from the INTERNATIONAL GREEN LEFT
conference to be held in Sydney, Australia from March 31 - April 4,
1994.
Sponsor: International Green Left Conference
Contacts: stan@peg
keys: Socialism, feminism, sexism, racism, internationalism, environment,
gay, liberation, activism, marxism
iglhrc.ern
Description: For people who wish to participate in the growing global
activism pertaining to the human rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals,
and transgendered worldwide.
Sponsor: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Contacts: iglhrc
keys: gay, lesbian, activism, glasnost, human rights, queer, homosexual,
sexuality, bisexual
iid.easttimor
Description: We envision the conference to be a venue for dialogue among
NGOs, POs and individuals and solidarity groups involved, supportive or
concerned with the plight of the East Timorese people.
Sponsor: Initiatives for International Dialogues
Contacts: iid@phil.gn.apc
keys: East Timor
iied.news
Description: Information about the work of the International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED) on sustainable development. Lists,
programme areas, current research, new publications, conferences, press
releases and job vacancies.
Contacts: iieduk@gn
keys: drylands, environmental, economics, sustainable, agriculture,
planning, forestry, land, climate, change, development
iisd.a21action
Description: Canadian actions related to Agenda 21 and Earth Summit goals.
See companion conference: iisd.a21org.
Sponsor: International Institute for Sustainable Development
Contacts: web:iisd
keys: Agenda21, Earth Summit, sustainable, environment, Canada, NGO,
government, business, industry, Projet de Societe
iisd.a21org
Description: Organizations in Canada acting on Agenda 21.
Sponsor: International Institute for Sustainable Development
Contacts: web:iisd
keys: Agenda21, Earth Summit, sustainable, environment, Canada, NGO,
government, business, industry, Projet de Societe
iisd.sourcebk
Description: The Sourcebook is a selective, annotated presentation of key
sources of information on Sustainable Development, including
organizations, publications, databases and other electronic networks.
Users can update information sources via web:iisd.
Sponsor: International Institute for Sustainable Development
Contacts: web:iisd
keys: international, Agenda 21
indig.survival
Description: Issues pertainng to the survival of indigenous peoples.
Sponsor: GreenNet
Contacts: geo2:survival
keys: natives, populations
insideout
Description: This conference contains articles from insideOUT, a magazine
for lesbian, gay and bisexual youth.
Sponsor: insideOUT
Contacts: insideout
keys: gay/bisexual/lesbian/youth/media/news/queer/politics
ipb.news
Description: Publications from and news about the International Peace
Bureau. News about campaigns and actions around the world, coverage on
inter-governmental negotiations and UN reform, and news and discussion
about other IPB events.
Sponsor: International Peace Bureau
Contacts: gn:ipb
keys: geneva peace monitor disarmament network international
ipc5.permacult
Description: To solicit electronic particpation in the Fifth International
Permaculture Conference in Copenhagen August 26th through 29th 1993.
Permaculture is applied ecology for the purposes of regeneration and
sustainability. See int.permaculture for more info.
Sponsor: Permakulturgruppen i DANMARK
Contacts: ipcvcph@gn
keys: permaculture, agriculture, development, bioregional, community,
ecology, technology, sustainability, environment, biology, botonay
ippnw.ceasefir
Description: Announcements of nuclear testing, proposed actions and
strategy and other relevant information towards a Comprehensive Test
Ban.
Sponsor: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Contacts: ippnwbos
ippnw.docs
Description: Various documents collected by IPPNW that deal with nuclear
war and related issues.
Sponsor: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Contacts: ippnwbos
ippnw.student
Description: For medical students and friends associated with
International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, discussing
opportunities for international collaboration on topics of disarmament,
environment, development and medical community.
Sponsor: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Contacts: studentadmin
keys: peace, disarmament, social responsibility, development, physicians,
nuclear war, environment, public health
irene.csr51
Description: UNHCR.CDR sponsored read only conference.
Sponsor: United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Contacts: support@gn
irene.ijrl
Description: UNHCR.CDR sponsored read only conference.
Sponsor: United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Contacts: support@gn
irene.info
Description: UNHCR.CDR sponsored read only conference.
Sponsor: United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Contacts: gn:support
irene.unhcrpi
Description: UNHCR.CDR sponsored read only conference.
Sponsor: United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Contacts: support@gn
isar.journal
Description: This conference contains "Surviving Together", a journal on
relations with the former Soviet Union. "Surviving Together" is
pubilished by ISAR, and covers development, the environment, economics,
women, civil society and other topics.
Sponsor: ISAR
Contacts: isar
keys: Russia, Eurasia, ISAR, Women, Sustainability, Sustainable Economics,
Sustainable Agriculture
ise.students
Description: For students of the Institute for Social Ecology in
Plainfield, VT. Institute supporters may be offered access upon request,
based on policies to be established by the students and faculty.
Sponsor: Institute for Social Ecology
Contacts: ise
keys: education, greens
iucc.climfacts
Description: Climate change fact sheets.
Sponsor: UNEP/information unit on climate change
Contacts: gn:iucc
iucc.news
Description: Contains the United Nations Climate Change Newsletter,
published by the UNEP Information Unit on Climate Change.
Sponsor: United Nations Environment Program
Contacts: iucc@gn
keys: iucc, climate change, unep, newsletter
iucn.news
Description: Species conservation, tropical forests, critical sites and
protected areas, wetlands, population, environmental education,
sustainable development and computerised global conservation monitoring.
Sponsor: Int'l Union for the Conservation of Nature
Contacts: iucnus
iww.news
Description: News and announcements about and of interest to Industrial
Workers of the World Network for labour movement, international
solidarity, syndicalism, direct worker action and worker control, rank
and file rebels, and organizing workers by industry.
Sponsor: Industrial Workers of the World
Contacts: indwrk@web
keys: labour, labor, union, international, sustainable, economics,
democracy, co-operative, peace, rights
justice.comm
Description: Connects people organizing in low-income communities of color
and as a mechanism to link those struggles to other progressive
movements.
Sponsor: Center for Third World Organizing
Contacts: ctwo
keys: community, black, afro-american, latino, latina, chicano, chicana,
asian, poverty, toxics, neighborhood
koinonia.bible
Description: A biblic service containing a daily biblical reading with a
brief comment and biblical reading and homiletic comment to each Sunday
and festivity.
Sponsor: Mision Claretianos
Contacts: koinonia@nicaro
keys: bible, good book
koinonia.teo
Description: Banco de Recursos teologicos y pastorales, destinada
especialmente a equipos de redaccion de revistas, periodistas,
educadores populares. Los materiales ofrecidos pueden ser reproducidos
libremente sin cargo economico.
Sponsor: Misioneros Claretianos & CRIES
Contacts: koinonia@nicara
keys: teologia, pastoral, periodismo
lambdaletters
Description: Monthly sample letters prepared by the Lambda Letters Project
to help people write to legislators and other public officials about
women's issues, lesbian/gay/bi issues, people of color issues and
HIV/AIDS.
Sponsor: Lambda Letters Project
Contacts: mamurphy
keys: political, bisexual, human rights, health
lcs.letsoft
Description: Issues on LETSystem software development.
Sponsor: Landsman Community Services Ltd
Contacts: landsman
keys: LETSystems, accounting, programs, software, economics, community
lemab.journal
Description: Recent articles from the quarterly "Le Monde a Bicyclette"
tabloid. Major topics are: transportation, ecology, and transport with
emphasis on promotion of bicycle as a year-round transportation
alternative. Reader response encouraged.
Sponsor: Le Monde a Bicylette
Contacts: lemab@web
keys: bicycle, transit
lescon
Description: Lesbian Contradiction: A Journal of Irreverent Feminism is a
quarterly of opinion, testimony, cartoons and humor by and for women who
aren't afraid to disagree or to challenge each other.
Sponsor: Lesbian Contradictions
Contacts: lescon
keys: dyke
lets.uk
Description: News about Local Economic Trading Systems (LETS) in the UK.
Sponsor: LetsLink UK
Contacts: valold@gn
keys: lets, local, linton, community, economics
lets.women
Description: This LETS conference acts as a forum for support and general
information sharing.
Sponsor: LETSystem
Contacts: peg:kaarenp
keys: women, economics, permaculture, technology, employment, business,
sustainable systems, LETS
link.library
Description: To raise awareness of Third World library issues within the
information related professions of the North, to link librarians and
libraries in the South with colleagues worldwide for their mutual
benefit.
Contacts: gn:odi
keys: librarianship, books, cds, isis, databases
loe.transcript
Description: Weekly transcripts of "Living on Earth," National Public
Radio's Environment News Program
Sponsor: Living On Earth -- National Public Radio
Contacts: livingearth
keys: television, npr, radio, tv, science, environment, news
lpi.hab
Description: An electronic version of "The Horn of Africa Bulletin" (HAB),
which is a bimonthly international media review, compiling and recording
news and comments on the Horn of Africa.
Sponsor: Life & Peace Institute
Contacts: enelson@nn
keys: The Horn of Africa Bulletin
lrc.symptom
Description: Process-Oriented Dreambodywork with Physical Symptoms.
Contacts: popjack@gn
keys: Psychosomatic, Psychology, Illness, Dreambodywork, Symptoms
lrrd.journal
Description: Livestock Research for Rural Development: an international
journal of publications by young research workers in developing
countries. Editor-in-chief: Dr T.R. Preston, CIPAV (Cali, Columbia).
Technical: Dr. A.W. Speedy, Oxford (Oxford, U.K.)
Sponsor: Livestock Research for Rural Development
Contacts: speedy@gn
keys: livestock, rural, development, sustainable, systems, tropical,
agriculture
mbnms.csm
Description: Conference of ongoing management activities within the
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (Monterey, California, USA) that
require either a Federal, State and/or local permits, certifications,
environmental reviews, etc.
Sponsor: Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Contacts: mbnms
mcccvom.restju
Description: Response to crime from a Christian "restorative justice"
perspective. Includes the Mennonite Central Committee of Canada - Victim
Offender Ministries newsletter, "Accord". Also, special interest topics.
Sponsor: Mennonite Central Ctte. of Canada-Victim Offender Ministries
Contacts: mccbcvom@web
keys: alternatives, restorative, non-punitive, healing, justice,
peacemaking, Canada
metta.news
Description: METTA's newsletter, Gardenia, provides historical accounts,
resources and analysis of events that advance the knowledge and use of
nonviolence throughout the world.
Sponsor: Marin Experimental Teaching, Training and Advising Center
Contacts: nicole
keys: peace, nonviolence, conflict resolution, meditation, environment
mlateral.news
Description: Summarizes recent developments in multilateral governmental
bodies with special attention paid to structural issues. Topics include
the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, GATT, OECD,
and others.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: cmehta
keys: United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, GATT, OECD,
G7, G77, multilateral, ASEAN, EC, NAFTA
motherjones
Description: This conference contains articles from "Mother Jones", one of
the United State's premier alternative magazines.
Sponsor: Mother Jones
Contacts: mojones
keys: media, investigate, investigative, reporting, environment, politics
nacla.report
Description: Contains "Report on the America's", the publication of the
North American Congress on Latin America. This bi-monthly magazine
features rigorous research and comprehensive analysis of the entire
region.
Sponsor: The North American Congress on Latin America
Contacts: nacla
keys: Latin America, Central America, economics, development, democracy,
politics, trade, immigration, labor, rights
nalgo.news
Description: Selection of articles from NALGO weekly newspaper for union
activists.
Sponsor: National and Local Government Officers Association
Contacts: gn:nalgonews
keys: labour, economics, gay, lesbian, women, equalops, health, safety,
hazards, black, anti-racist, disabilities, peace, environment
nan.countries
Description: Reports of 'Disarm the Seas' related activities on a
country-by-country basis around the North Atlantic region.
Sponsor: North Atlantic Network
Contacts: gn:nta
nation.online
Description: Subscription conference holding the latest issues of the
Nation, one of the United State's oldest progressive magazines.
Sponsor: The Nation
Contacts: nation
keys: news, politics, policy, publishing, arts, environment, feminism,
progressive
nation.samples
Description: Public conference with sample articles from the Nation, one
of the Unites State's oldest progressive magazines.
Sponsor: The Nation
Contacts: nation
keys: news, politics, policy, publishing, arts, environment, feminism,
progressive
nation.talk
Description: This conference is for discussion by readers of the Nation
magazine about Nation articles and other topics.
Sponsor: The Nation
Contacts: nation
keys: Nation, discussion, talk, labor, feminism, politics, alternative,
media, arts, environment
ncma.forum
Description: Actvities & discussion of the Northern California Mediation
Association, including a calendar of events.
Sponsor: Northern California Mediation Association
Contacts: cnstaff, staffcn
keys: conflict, resolution, mediation, adr
nfd.ifeatures
Description: Contains 'Insight Features', a monthly compendium of
progressive opinion pieces and feature articles published through
Networks for Democracy.
Sponsor: Networking For Democracy
Contacts: cdavidson, ihand
keys: alternate, media, news, progressive, opinions, politics, democracy,
liberation, struggle
nfn.tempforest
Description: Information concerning the threats to earths temperate
forests. Sponsored by the Native Forest Network.
Sponsor: Native Forest Network
Contacts: tfullum
keys: temperate, forest, native, paper, clearcut, plantation, direct,
action, timber, ecosystem, boreal, tree
nicadri
Description: Summary of the most important news in the newspapers of
Nicaragua: Barricada and El Nuevo Diario.
Sponsor: Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales del FSLN
Contacts: dri@nicarao
keys: Barricada, El Nuevo Diario, Nicaragua, news, Spanish, newspaper
nlns.news
Description: Monthly email dispatch of New Liberation News Service, the
independent, youth-oriented, progressive news wire serving over 200
community media outlets in 40 states, 4 Canadian provinces and a variety
of international locales.
Sponsor: New Liberation News Service
Contacts: igc:nlns
keys: news, youth, undergound, community, environment, racism, peace,
democracy, media, labor, student, native, health, housing, education,
feminism
nolo.law.calif
Description: NOLO Press Pocket guide to California Law
Sponsor: NOLO Press
Contacts: jrhelie
keys: law, california, selfhelp
nolo.neighborl
Description: Neighbor Law answers common questions about subjects that
often trigger disputesbetween neighbors: fences, trees, boundries and
noise.
Sponsor: NOLO Press
Contacts: jrhelie
nolo.news
Description: A newsletter of the NOLO Press Self-Help Law Books and
Software.
Sponsor: NOLO Press
Contacts: jrhelie selias
keys: Law, self help, dispute resolution
nonviolence.to
Description: Contains bi-monthly publication 'Nonviolence Today' to
increase the understanding and use of nonviolence.
Contacts: peg:davek
keys: civil, disobedience
norml.hemp
Description: Implications and possibilities of restoring C. Sativa
(hemp/marijuana) to our agricultural base.
Sponsor: National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
Contacts: bmasel
npsg.milflight
Description: Current information about environmental and health impacts of
military training and testing throughout the world with emphasis on
Canada, U.S. & Europe.
Sponsor: Native Peoples Support Group of Newfoundland and Labrador
Contacts: npsg
keys: health, and, environmental, impacts, of, military, flight, training,
mideast
nrdc.news
Description: Press releases, news items from the environmental advocacy
group the Natural Resources Defense Council. For more information, write
to NRDC, 40 W. 20th St., New York, NY 10011 or email comments to
<nrdccomm>.
Contacts: nrdccomm
keys: pollution, clean water, clean air, pesticides, public health,
environment, nuclear disarmament, toxics, wilderness, global environment
nw.general
Description: Tracks nuclear warheads and components as they travel on
public U.S. transportation routes.
Sponsor: Nuke Watch
Contacts: stsmith
nwf.consdirect
Description: Contains the Conservation Directory of the National Wildlife
Federation.
Sponsor: National Wildlife Federation
Contacts: econet
nwfor.events
Description: Listing of actions, meetings, conferences, and other events
of interest to forest activists, particularly in the Northwestern United
States.
Sponsor: Headwaters
Contacts: jowens
keys: ancient, oldgrowth, organizing, owl, actions, alerts, blm,
biodiversity
nwfor.library
Description: Practical and informative documents for forest activists.
Sponsor: Headwaters
Contacts: jowens
keys: ancient, oldgrowth, preserves, organizing, owl, northwest, blm,
biodiversity
nwu.agenda
Description: Describes the National Writers Union, its history, program
and organizing goals; recruits new members, debates/discusses writers
and labor issues, exchange information, and alert writers about NWU
activities and upcoming events.
Sponsor: National Writers Union
Contacts: bcleveland
keys: journalism, journalist, freelance, censorship, novelist, author,
wages, nonfiction, poetry, media, grievance, writing, editing,
publishing
ombuds.forum
Description: This is an organizational sponsored conference for
information and dialogue relating to the work of the Ombuds
Associations.
Sponsor: Ombudsman Associations
Contacts: dfallor
keys: Ombudsman ombuds
p.news
Description: P.news (The Progressive News Network) is a multicultural,
multi-racial news conference for the politically progressive. The
conference also serves as a conduit for information from other Left Wing
sources.
Sponsor: The Progressive News Network
Contacts: pnews
keys: dissent, Solidarity, Guardian, Nation, democracy, communist,
socialist
p.news.discuss
Description: This conference contains discussion similar to that on
p.news, but from/to a wider variety of sources. The Progressive News
Network is a multicultural, multi-racial news conference for the
politically progressive.
Sponsor: The Progressive News Network
Contacts: pnews
keys: dissent, Solidarity, Guardian, Nation, democracy, communist,
socialist
pa.lobby
Description: Current detailed information on legislation that Peace Action
(formerly SANE/Freeze) supports, including strategy plans and action
alerts.
Sponsor: Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze)
Contacts: sfnatldc
keys: nuclear, disarmament
pa.local
Description: Local SANE/Freeze groups share successes, frustrations,
expertise with each other.
Sponsor: SANE/Freeze
Contacts: sfnatldc
keys: nuclear, disarmament
pa.media
Description: Sample press releases, statements and letters-to-the-editor
supplied by Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze).
Sponsor: Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze)
Contacts: sfnatldc
keys: nuclear, weapons, disarmament
pacifica.arch
Description: Posting of information regarding Pacifica's collection of
over 40,000 historical and contemporary recordings made by Pacifica's 5
stations (KPFA Berkelely, KPFK Los Angeles, WBAI New York, WPFW
Washington D.C., KPFT Houston) and ind. producsers in the US
Sponsor: Pacifica Foundation
Contacts: ppspacific
keys: archive, research, libraries, audio, tape, resources, broadcast,
radio, media, pacifica, information, services, cassettes, news,
repositories
panos.discuss
Description: Discussion and feedback on articles in conference panos.news
Sponsor: Panos Institute
Contacts: panos@gn
keys: social, justice, third, world, development, environment, aids,
health, women, media
parlat.general
Description: Conferencia auspiciada por el Parlamento Latinoamericano, que
trata de abrir un espacio de informacion y de discusion de la actividad
parlamentaria - legislativa de este organismo internacional que agrupa a
parlamentarios de todo el Continente.
Sponsor: Parlamento Latinoamericano
Contacts: parlat@wamani
keys: PARLAT, Parlamento, Latinoamerica, Sociedad, Legislacion
pasran.comm
Description: Schools communicating about action projects dealing with
tropical rainforest conservation, specifically in Latin America.
Sponsor: Partners of the Americas
Contacts: sidwell
keys: rainforests/schools/environmental/education
pbi.news
Description: Newsletters and reports published by Peace Brigades
International, and discussions on human rights and nonviolent movements
in Latin America and South Asia.
Sponsor: Peace Brigades International
Contacts: gn:neala
keys: pacific
peacemedia.new
Description: Contains issues of 'Peace Media Service', seeking to develop
a sense of responsibility among journalists to report and encourage
nonviolent approaches to conflict resolution.
Sponsor: GreenNet
Contacts: gn:peacemedia
keys: media
pesticide.info
Description: Library of pesticide-related information. This conference is
also available as PESTICIDE-INFO database.
Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network North America
Contacts: panna
keys: agriculture
pl.sacredsound
Description: Focuses on interrelationships of the inner music of spirit,
the environment, harmonics, divine proportion, and consciousness. It
provides a forum for bringing together various spiritual and scientific
perspectives.
Sponsor: La Casa del Paese Lontano
Contacts: dedwards
keys: eck, environment, esoteric, geomancy, harmonics, health, life,
music, nature, psychology, sacred, shabda, sound, spirituality, sufi,
therapy
pna.news
Description: A news conference of the Peoples News Agency (PNA) with the
support of Proutist Universal. This conference is for news, analysis,
commentary, good news coming primarily from PNA member periodicals from
around the world.
Sponsor: Proutist Universal
Contacts: proutwdc
keys: news, ecology, earth, family, economy, development, education,
women, youth, PROUT, culture, reviews, democracy, environment, health,
labor
pol.jfk
Description: Information, issues, research notes, events calendar,
documents, resources, political action and discussion of issues
concerning JFK assassination - as well as related issues and events.
Sponsor: Citizens for the Truth of the Kennedy Assasination
Contacts: telltruthnow
keys: justice, jfk, assassination, politics, covert operations,
conspiracy, John F. Kennedy
pol.phila2
Description: Philadelphia II is an action to get initiatives on the
ballots in California, Missouri and other states that have the citizen
initiative process. It is a first step leading to a world constitutional
convention. Sponsor is One World, a Cal. non-profit.
Sponsor: One World / Philadelphia II
Contacts: owmonterey
keys: world governance, government, law, peace, environment, UN, U.N.,
United Nations, federalist, oneworld
ppn.nukemateri
Description: Discussion and information about the nuclear fuel cycle, from
mining through waste handling and its effect on the land and the people.
Contacts: econet
ppn.peru
Description: "ppn.peru" is a forum for news and analysis from and about
Peru and about US military and economic policy in Peru. Also includes
human rights alerts from Peru. Some topics come from Peru in Spanish.
Sponsor: Peru Peace Network/USA
Contacts: jkawell
keys: humanrights, drugs, coca, drugwar, andes, drugpolicy, peace, debt
prk.reefalert
Description: ReefAlert provides public awareness updates on current coral
reef conservation issues and full information to enable citizen
participation in coral reef protection campaigns. ReefAlert is a service
of ReefKeeper International.
Sponsor: Project ReefKeeper International
Contacts: reefalert
keys: coral, reef, fish, marine, conservation, ecology, fisheries,
reefkeeper, ocean, scuba, corals, diving, reefs, reefalert
psr.bulletins
Description: Medical consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Sponsored by the Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Sponsor: Physicians for Social Responsibility
Contacts: psrnatl
keys: psr, peace, nuclear, disarmament, physicians, news
pt.brasil
Description: Material from the Worker's Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores)
of Brazil. Dialogues between them and others.
Sponsor: Partido dos Tradalhadores
Contacts: ax:support
keys: labor, labour
publiceye
Description: Reliable resources for building democracy, pluralism, social
justice, and human rights. Defending the right to know and the freedom
to act. Fighting fascism, political repression, and right-wing attacks
on dissent and diversity.
Sponsor: Political Research Assoc. & NLG Civil Liberties Committee
Contacts: cberlet
keys: Rights, Freedom, Democracy, Justice, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia,
Spying, Surveillance, Repression, Fascism, Nazism, Liberty, pluralism
ran.news
Description: Stores and distributes the Rainforest Action Network News
Service
Sponsor: Rainforest Action Network
Contacts: rainforest
keys: forest, rainforest
ran.ragforum
Description: Facilitates the gathering and dissemination of information
for Rainforest Action Groups throughout the world.
Sponsor: Rainforest Action Network
Contacts: featherstone, ra
keys: rainforest, direct, action, activist, ran, rag
redi.planning
Description: Organizational planning for Renewable Energy Development
Institute.
Sponsor: Renewable Energy Development Institute
Contacts: sequoiatech
keys: energy, appropriate, technology, telecommunications
renew.america
Description: Resources and materials from Renew America's "Searching for
Success" Program and their "Environmental Success Index".
Sponsor: Renew America
Contacts: renewamerica
keys: index/energy/water/land/wildlife/agriculture/toxic/waste
reps.forum
Description: For public debate and interaction on the policies and
formation of a new political party. The philosophical basis of the new
party will be centred on the socio-economic theory of PROUT, (the
Progressive Utililization Theory).
Contacts: peg:pcoz
keys: political, social, party, democracy, environment, work, food, jobs,
alternatives
sc.news.calif
Description: This conference is for newsletters from the Sierra Club
Chapters in California.
Sponsor: Sierra Club
Contacts: lpintl
keys: Sierra Club, newsletter, state, environment, conservation,
California
sciencereview
Description: Scientific World has been published 4 times per year since
1957 by the World Federation of Scientific Workers (WFSW). If you would
like to access this conference then please contact the moderator
<rjtechne@gn.apc.org> who will give you more details.
Sponsor: World Federation of Scientific Workers
Contacts: rjtechne@gn
keys: science, history, government, multicultural, non-violence,
engineering, technology, imperialism, development, peace, democracy,
ecology
scma
Description: A record and calendar of activities of the Southern
California Mediation Association--announcements, events, committee and
board meetings, and forum for dialog with the mediation community in
southern California.
Sponsor: Southern California Mediation Association
Contacts: djmellor
keys: mediation, california, organization, conflict resolution, adr,
alternative dispute resolution
servas.travel
Description: General information about Servas International, a global
organization that promotes person-to-person contact between hosts and
travelers interested in promoting world peace.
Sponsor: Servas International
keys: travel, homestays, exchange, international, host
sgr.news
Description: For open discussion on matters of interest to SGR (Scientists
for Global Responsibilty); incorporating Electronics and Computing for
Peace (ECP), Psychologists for Peace (PfP), and Scientists Against
Nuclear Arms (SANA).
Sponsor: Scientists for Global Responsibility
Contacts: sgr@gn
keys: science, scientist, computer, engineer, technology, weapons,
environment, destruction
sipri.press
Description: Carries documents, publications, press releases, and parts of
the Yearbook following the status of disarmament and armaments in the
world, all published by SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute, SIPRI.
Sponsor: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Contacts: pns:ghagmeyer
sucesos
Description: Weekly material from the Sucesos news service, dedicated to
cover themes from the Western hemisphere. In Spanish.
Sponsor: Sucesos
Contacts: apoyo@chasque
svf.netdemfed
Description: Discussion on the concept of democratic federalism, its basic
principles and its realization by political structures, in particular
regionally and globally (World Federalism).
Sponsor: Sveriges V(a:)rlds Federalister
Contacts: gekagaard@nn
synapses.news
Description: Synapses is an interfaith, grassroots action network for
peace and justice focusing on Southern Africa, Middle East and Southeast
Asia, with experience in The Philippines, Burma, Anti-Racism and
Nonviolence. This confence contains news and action ideas.
Sponsor: Synapses
Contacts: synapses
keys: international, cambodia, thailand, south, africa, palestine
taiga.news
Description: Information from Taiga Rescue Network on conservation and
sustainable use of the boreal forests of the world.
Sponsor: Taiga Rescue Network
Contacts: rogols@pns
keys: environment, conservation, timber, indigenous peoples, paper
consumption
technet
Description: Women's Technet is for women in pro audio, video, broadcast,
recording, live sound and related industries. It promotes a higher
profile, more balanced opportunity, educational opportunities and
support for women in these fields. Email 'vanessa' for info
Sponsor: Women's Technet
Contacts: vanessa
technet.policy
Description: This is the women-only conference for Women's Technet. Job
Board listings and other organizational topics are here. For additional
topics concerning Women's Technet, visit the women.technet conference.
Contact 'vanessa' for more information.
Sponsor: Women's Technet
Contacts: vanessa
tet.forum
Description: This is a conference for discussion of Telecommunications
Education Issues.
Sponsor: Telecommunications Education Trust
Contacts: jrhelie
keys: communications, media, telephone
tet.projects
Description: To make available educational materials produced by grantees
of the Telecommunications Education Trust.
Contacts: jrhelie
keys: phones, multilingual, lowincome
tibet.eco
Description: Provides the Tibet Support Groups (TSG) and environmental
organizations with environmental information about Tibet, including the
Kham, Amdo, and U-Tsang regions, historically part of Tibet.
tibet.information
Description: Urgent-action and human rights information pertaining to
Tibet. Sponsored by Tibet Information Network.
Sponsor: Tibet Information Network
Contacts: gn:robbieb
tibet.news
Description: Tibet.news contains a library of informatin about the
situation in Tibet. Many topics are for archival purposes only; users
should not post comments under these topics. Please respond with
comments only to topics specifically marked for discussion.
Sponsor: International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet
Contacts: richter
keys: tibet, Dalai Lama, Himalaya, Qinghai
tibet.tsg
Description: Conference for Tibet Support Groups, sharing political,
educational and cultural information about the Tibetan movement.
Sponsor: International Committee of Lawyers on Tibet
Contacts: peter
keys: politic/education/tibet/human/rights
toxics.rachel
Description: Library of RACHEL's Hazardous Waste Newsletter, published by
the Environmental Research Foundation.
Sponsor: Environmental Research Foundation
Contacts: erf
keys: toxic, hazard, labor, incinerator, landfill, hazardous
tr.peacewalks
Description: Calendar of peace and social justice walks world-wide. Also a
resource/skills exchange for organizers of walks. (archived)
Sponsor: Total Revolution
Contacts: totalrevt
keys: nonviolence
transcont.news
Description: The Transatlantic Peace Newsletter from the peace work
foundation 'Die Schwelle' in West Germany, offering a European
perspective on issues of disarmament, peace work and the churches.
Sponsor: GreenNet
keys: peace, Transatlantic Peace Newsletter, die Schwelle, disarmament,
churches
trc.archive
Description: The Trade Resource Consortium archive houses studies and
other scholarly works that directly respond to the current research
needs of international non-governmental organizations concerned with
trade and environment related issues.
Sponsor: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Contacts: cmehta
keys: GATT, NAFTA, economics, multilateral institutions
twenty20.legis
Description: Monthly legislative updates and suggested actions as prepared
by the 20/20 Vision National Project
Sponsor: 20/20 Vision
Contacts: twentydc
twn.features
Description: Notes and features from the Third World Network, a coalition
of intellectuals working in the fields of Environment and Development.
Most material originates at the four main sites of TWN in Malaysia,
Geneva, NEw Delhi and Montevideo.
Sponsor: Third World Network
Contacts: chasque:support
keys: latin, america
twn.info
Description: Results of the activities of the Third World Network, a
coalition of groups and individuals concerned with Third World issues.
International Secretariat, 87 Cantonment Road, 10250 Penang, Malaysia.
Phone: (+604)373511; Fax: (+604)364505; email: twn@igc
Sponsor: Third World Network
Contacts: twn
twn.notas
Description: Notas editoriales de la Red del Tercer Mundo en espan~ol.
Contiene material del Servicio Informativo de la RTM, y de la Revista
del Sur, ambos publicados por el Instituto del Tercer Mundo en
Montevideo (chasque:item)
Contacts: chasque:item
keys: latin, america
twr.nl
Description: Annotated lists of third world related organizations, books,
periodicals, pamphlets and audio-visuals. Sponsored by Third World
Resources.
Sponsor: Third World Resources
Contacts: tfenton, jdubine
keys: thirdworld, asia, pacific, latinamerica, caribbean, middle east,
africa, hunger, humanrights, women, peace, nuclear, corporations, labor,
nati
unep.nyu.youth
Description: To enable youth of all nations to participate in the
environmental path the world will be taking.
Sponsor: UN Environmental Programme & NY University
unpo.news
Description: Unregistered Nations and Peoples Organisation's conference in
the Hague on human rights.
Sponsor: The Unregisteed Nations and Peoples Organisation
Contacts: interdoc
up.declaration
Description: An archived conference containing the draft of a Universal
Declaration of Human Responsibilities
Sponsor: University for Peace
Contacts: abrenes
utne.cafe
Description: A place to socialize with other Utne Reader readers while
discussing any topic of interest.
Sponsor: Utne Reader
Contacts: utnereader
keys: chat, discussion, socializing
utne.salon
Description: A place to start or join impromptu discussions with other
Utne Reader readers on general interest topics typically covered in the
magazine.
Sponsor: Utne Reader
Contacts: gwigley
keys: debate, conversation, issues
utne.spirit
Description: A place to discuss the role of spirituality in our lives,
including religion, myths, and rituals. Also, spirituality and its
relationship to politics, education, the arts, and psychology/therapy.
Sponsor: Utne Reader
Contacts: gwigley
keys: discussion
vana.peace
Description: Issues of war, peace and militarism from the point of view of
veterans.
Sponsor: Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
Contacts: web:edshaff
vfp.forum
Description: Discussion of issues of war, peace and militarism from the
perspective of the military veteran and to share what we as veterans
have learned about the human costs of war.
Sponsor: Veterans for Peace, Inc.
Contacts: cbonner
keys: vfp, veterans
vhp.refugeelaw
Description: To encourage the exchange of data concerning refugee law
throughout the world. The conference is for the benefit of lawyers and
refugee relief workers in helping to better provide legal support for
refugees. Case law/article summaries will be posted.
Sponsor: Vereniging Humanitaire Projekten
Contacts: vhp@antenna.nl
keys: refugees, law, human, rights, forced, migrations, immigration,
aliens, vluchtelingen, flucht
wavenet.kayak
Description: Online extension of the Wave~Length Paddling Network, linking
the paddling community (manufacturers, outfitters, guides, clubs,
individual paddlers, etc) with issues that impact the sport and which
are impacted by the sport.
Sponsor: Wave~Length Paddling Network
Contacts: wavenet@web
keys: environment, ecotourism, paddle, wilderness, ocean, river,
whitewater, wildlife, marine, forests, recreation, trips, safety,
health, camping
wcn.sfplibrary
Description: Materials related to the Structure for Peace Convocation held
in Washington, DC, February 1989.
Sponsor: World Citizens Network
Contacts: gmarcus
wfa.unreform
Description: Official public conference of the World Federalist
Association, an organization pursuing justice in transnational issues
through enforceable world law. WFA develops, promotes, and educates the
public about various models for reforming or replacing the UN
Sponsor: World Federalist Association
Contacts: wfa, jepstein
keys: WFA, WFM, United Nations, UN, U.N., federalists, global, governance,
government, oneworld, earth, international law
whatshap.events
Description: Lists bay area events of political or social interest.
Sponsor: Bay Area What's Happ'n
Contacts: dfloyd
wilpf.hotline
Description: Regular updates on legislation on such issues as disarmament,
racial justice and an end to U.S. global intervention. Sponsored by the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Sponsor: Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Contacts: wilpflegis
women.east-wes
Description: A forum to discuss gender issues in the radically altered
societies of East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Sponsored by the Network of East-West Women (NEWW).
Sponsor: Network of East-West Women
Contacts: neww
keys: women, gender, feminism, reproductive rights, post-communism,
communism, NIS, CIS, CEE, ECE, FSU
worldwatch.news
Description: Research and publications produced by the Worldwatch
Institute. Press releases, new publications, ordering information,
highlights from current issues of World Watch Magazine,
table-of-contents and abstracts for new books
Sponsor: Worldwatch Institute
Contacts: worldwatch
keys: environment, population, biodiversity, climate, poverty,
agriculture, water, energy, forests, food, health, waste, pollution,
economics
wps.database
Description: This conference holds the directory of world political
systems, a project of the World Political Systems Project. Each topic
describes the political system of a different country.
Sponsor: World Political Systems Project
Contacts: jmarti
keys: government, politics, political, parties
wri.info
Description: Information about the World Resources Institute, which is
located at: 1709 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006,
tel:202/638-6300, fax:202/638-0036, e-mail: wri@igc.apc.org
Sponsor: World Resources Institute
Contacts: wri
keys: environment, development, resources, NGO
wri.news
Description: News, announcements and information from War Resisters
International, on all aspects of anti-militarist and nonviolent action
worldwide.
Sponsor: War Resisters International
Contacts: gn:warresisters
wrm.rainforest
Description: Information on the threats to forests and their peoples and
about the official solutions, and NGO responses to them.
Sponsor: World Rainforest Movement
Contacts: geo2:wrm
keys: rainforests, global, warming, brazil, south, america
youth.streetkids
Description: Information interchange to improve human conditions for the
earth's estimated 100 million street children.
Contacts: bhayskar
keys: children, youth, rights, poverty, homeless, development, drugs,
prostitution, exploitation
youth.streetta
Description: For the development of community media knowledge, activism,
and access for young people in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is
hosted by If Graphics. This conference is public, but please respect its
purpose.
Sponsor: If Graphics
Contacts: ifgraphics@gn
keys: media, Black, drugs, Brixton, Lambeth, England, youth, U.K., United
Kingdom, community, council estates, ragga, social security
zmagazine
Description: Conference of miscellaneous articles published in "Z"
Magazine and discussion by readers.
Contacts: ggundrey
keys: alternative, media, progressive, Chomsky
** Org-Sponsored Conferences - AEE:
aee.calendar
Description: Alliance Calendar of Events for the U.S. A conference of the
Alliance for Environmental Education.
Sponsor: Alliance for Environmental Education
Contacts: alliance, aalm
keys: aee, calendar, events, education, environment
aee.curriculum
Description: Reports on trends and practices found in current
environmental education curricula. A conference of the Alliance for
Environmental Education.
Sponsor: Alliance for Environmental Education
Contacts: alliance, aalm
keys: aee, education, environment, curriculum
aee.directory
Description: Up-to-date directory of the AEE Network Center system. A
conference of the Alliance for Environmental Education.
Sponsor: Alliance for Environmental Education
Contacts: alliance, aalm
keys: aee, education, environment, directory
aee.news
Description: Current Alliance newsletters: broken down by departments and
major articles. A conference of the Alliance for Environmental Education
Sponsor: Alliance for Environmental Education
Contacts: alliance, aalm
keys: aee, newsletter, education, environment
aee.questions
Description: Questions to the Alliance. Go here for general information
about the Alliance for Environmental Education Network Centers.
Sponsor: Alliance for Environmental Education
Contacts: alliance, aalm
keys: aee, education, environment
** Org-Sponsored Conferences - Amnesty:
ai.allg
Description: Oeffentliche Conference mit Pressemitteilungen, Kurzberichten
und anderen Informationen ueber amnesty international und Menschenrechte
in deutscher Sprache. (amnesty and related topics in general, in German
language).
Sponsor: Amnesty International
Contacts: g.gabriel@comli
keys: Menschenrechte
ai.general
Description: This is a public conference where Amnesty International news
releases, short reports, campaign actions and other human rights and
Amnesty International information is posted.
Sponsor: Amnesty International
Contacts: hrcoord
keys: Amnesty International, human rights
ai.letter
Description: For activating users to send letters/telexes/faxes to
Government officials all over the world in order to urge them to release
prisoners of conscience. The letters are written by Amnesty
International.
Sponsor: Amnesty International Sweden
Contacts: hca@pns
keys: human rights, activism
ai.news
Description: Amnesty International News Service items and press releases
Sponsor: Amnesty International
Contacts: ains@gn
keys: amnesty, international, news, press, releases
ai.students
Description: Amnesty International news and ideas of interest to students
and youth in general.
Sponsor: Amnesty International
Contacts: swikswo, hrcoord
keys: human, rights, torture
ai.uan
Description: Amnesty International's Urgent Action Alerts on torture and
other human rights violations. (See also the ai.letters conference.)
Sponsor: Amnesty International
Contacts: amnesty
keys: torture, action, prisoners, amnesty, international, alerts, human,
rights
ai.uan.de
Description: Amnesty International's Urgent Action Netzwerk gegen Folter,
Hinrichtungen "Verschwindenlassen" und andere
Menschenrechtsverletzungen. Sprache: deutsch, englische Aktionen in
ai.uan. (Urgent Actions in German)
Sponsor: Amnesty International
Contacts: g.gabriel@comli
keys: Menschenrechte, Folter, Todesstrafe, Eilaktionen, Aktionen
aihre.general
Description: Discussion of human rights education. Please post comments,
suggestions, information, and the like.
Sponsor: Amnesty International
** Org-Sponsored Conferences - FGC:
fgc.cascadia
Description: Communication link for North West Foundation for Global
Community members.
Sponsor: Foundation for Global Community
Contacts: fgcpaoffice
fgc.grapevine
Description: A vehicle for the Foundation for Global Community
constituency to share ideas that are working in their local areas.
Public.
Sponsor: Foundation for Global Community
Contacts: fgcpaoffice
fgc.resources
Description: Sharing of books, videotapes and other resources used by
Foundation for Global Community.
Sponsor: Foundation for Global Community
Contacts: fgcpaoffice
** Org-Sponsored Conferences - GAIN:
gain.agencies
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find this information in <gain.infobase>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
keys: US, United States, Government, Agencies, EPA, DOE, Federal
gain.air.clima
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find postings related to this issue in <gain.toxics>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.alerts
Description: Action alerts on legislation that GAIN is covering and action
alerts on other environmental concerns that need immediate action. The
alert items come from an expanding number of reliable sources.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
keys: rainforests, global warming, acid rain, government, congress
gain.congressb
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find this information in <gain.infobase>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.desertify
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find postings related to this issue primarily in <gain.resources>.
Please also check <gain.ecosystems>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.ecosystem
Description: The Ecosystem conference has legislative and other
information, as well as action suggestions, pertaining to the
conservation and protection of various ecosystems.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
keys: anarctica, arctic, biodiversity, coastal zone, desert, endangered
species, oceans & seas, rivers, lakes, wetlands, wilderness
gain.energy
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find postings related to this issue in <gain.resources>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.forests
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find postings related to this issue primarily in <gain.ecosystems>.
Please also check <gain.resources>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.general
Description: This is a multi-purpose, read/write conference that serves as
a communication point for GAIN staff, members, and other network users.
It also contains general interest items pertinant to GAIN's mission and
discussion of effective action strategies.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
keys: activism, environment, legislation, action
gain.hazardous
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find postings related to this issue in <gain.toxics>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.housecomm
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find this information in <gain.infobase>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.infobase
Description: Information and resources that will assist readers in taking
action. Includes: listings of current Congressional committee rosters; a
directory by state of Congressmembers; current Cabinet contacts and key
federal agencies.
Sponsor: Global Action and Information Network
Contacts: gain
keys: congress, representatives, senators, house committees, senate
committees, federal agency, u.s. cabinet
gain.justice
Description: Legislative and background information along with action
suggestions pertaining to areas of environmental concern that impact on
and interrelate with social and economic justice.
Sponsor: Global Action and Information Network
Contacts: gain
keys: community development, environmental racism, indigenous, nuclear
arms, disarmament, nuclear safety, population, immigration
gain.legislati
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find this information in <gain.general>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.mgt
Description: Discussion of the Global Action Network managment.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: jgeiermann
gain.nuclear
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find postings related to nuclear safety and nuclear waste in
<gain.toxics>. Postings related to nuclear weapons and disarmament are
in <gain.justice>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.populatio
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find postings related to this issue in <gain.justice>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.resources
Description: Legislative and other information, as well as action
suggestions, on natural resource arenas in which the federal government
is involved in managing or regulating.
Sponsor: Global Action and Information Network
Contacts: gain
keys: agriculture, groundwater, non-renewables, mining, renewables,
forestry, fisheries, recycling, soils, transportation
gain.senatecom
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find this information in <gain.infobase>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.toxics
Description: Legislative and other information, along with action
suggestions, pertaining to varied forms of pollution, hazardous and
solid waste issues, pesticides and other toxics.
Sponsor: Global Action and Information Network
Contacts: gain
keys: herbicides, lead, nuclear waste, ozone depletion, global warming,
acid rain, air pollution, radon, indoor pollution, sewage
gain.wastes
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find postings related to this issue in <gain.resources> and
<gain.toxics>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
gain.waterissu
Description: Due to GAIN's recent conference reorganization, you can now
find postings related to these issues primarily in <gain.toxics>.
Postings related to nuclear weapons and disarmament are in
<gain.justice>.
Sponsor: Global Action & Information Network
Contacts: gain
** Org-Sponsored Conferences - Global Rivers:
gr.aaw
Description: This conference is for users of the Adopt-A-Watershed science
curriculum.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: aalm
keys: water, education, global, rivers
gr.actions
Description: Through this conference, participants discuss strategies,
methods, goals and obstacles involved with the actions they have taken
or are taking.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
gr.announce
Description: G.R.E.E.N. participants can post and read items and
announcements of general interest.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
gr.black
Description: Communication between students, teachers and environmental
professionals about water quality issues and concerns in the Black
watershed of Michigan and the Lake Clair region between the US and
Canada.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: bstapp gree
keys: rivers, watershed, GREEN
gr.clinton
Description: Communication between students, teachers and environmental
professionals about water quality issues and concerns in the Clinton
watershed of Michigan
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: clintonriver
keys: rivers, watershed, GREEN, water, quality, citizen, action
gr.cuyahoga
Description: Students, teachers and resource people monitoring the
Cuyahoga River in Ohio. Sponsored by the Global Rivers Environmental
Education Network (G.R.E.E.N.)
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: jbull
keys: rivers, education, monitoring, water, quality, high, schools
gr.database
Description: G.R.E.E.N. participants enter water quality data using
chemical, biological and physical parameters.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
gr.deschutes
Description: To allow communication between students, teachers, and
community members regarding water quality and related issues in the
Budd/Deschutes watershed in southern Puget Sound, Washington.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Env Education Network
Contacts: budd
keys: northwest, water, quality, watershed, environment, GREEN, students,
monitoring, citizen, action
gr.fox
Description: Communication between students, teachers and environmental
professionals about water quality issues and concerns in the Fox River
Valley watershed of Illinois and Wisconsin.
Sponsor: The Friends of the Fox River
Contacts: ddressler
keys: rivers, watershed, education, monitoring, water, quality, GREEN,
Fox, FOF
gr.grandmi
Description: This conference is to allow communication between students,
teachers and environmental professionals about water quality issues and
concerns in the Grand River watersheds of Southern Michigan.
Sponsor: Grand Ledge Public Schools, Grand Ledge, Michigan
Contacts: grandledgemi
keys: watershed, rivers, education, GREEN
gr.maumee
Description: Students, teachers and resource people monitoring the Maumee
River in Ohio. Sponsored by the Global Rivers Environmental Education
Network (G.R.E.E.N.).
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: dhazlett
keys: rivers, education, monitoring, water, quality, high, schools
gr.milwaukee
Description: Communication between students, teachers and environmental
professionals about water quality issues and concerns in the Milwaukee,
Menomonee and Kinnickinnic watersheds of southeastern Wisconsin.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: riveredge
keys: rivers, watershed, GREEN, schools, monitoring, water, quality
gr.monitoring
Description: G.R.E.E.N. participants exchange problems, ideas and tips
about water monitoring.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
gr.nisqually
Description: To enable students, teachers and environmental professionals
to communicate about water quality issues in the Nisqually River Basin
of southeast Washington state.
Sponsor: global rivers env education netwrk
Contacts: cmaun
keys: Rainier
gr.participant
Description: G.R.E.E.N. participants exchange general information about
themselves, thoughts, concerns, realizations, goals of their water
monitoring program and why they are a part of G.R.E.E.N.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
gr.project
Description: Information clearinghouse for G.R.E.E.N. activities and
conferences. Includes an overview of the G.R.E.E.N. program and a
description of G.R.E.E.N. conferences on EcoNet.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
gr.rouge
Description: Xommunication between students, teachers and environmental
professionals about water quality issues and concerns in the Rouge
watershed of metropolitan Detroit, Michigan.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: lmead
keys: rivers, watershed, GREEN, education
gr.skagit
Description: This conference is to allow communication between students,
teachers and environmental professionals about watershed issues,
including water quality and quantity concerns in the Skagit River
Watershed of Washington State.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: ncascades
keys: rivers, watershed, GREEN, education
gr.students
Description: G.R.E.E.N. students share their thoughts, concerns, and
interests on any topic -- just talk.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
gr.support
Description: For the staff of the international G.R.E.E.N. office to
answer your questions & hear out your ideas or comments. They will also
process orders received here for resource materials, field manuals &
curricular materials offered online & in hard copy forms
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
gr.teachers
Description: Teachers and watershed coordinators to problem-solve, share
ideas, fund-raising thoughts, and other support.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
gr.template
Description: Contains templates of model topics that can be used in your
own watershed conference.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: gree
keys: river, education, monitoring, water, quality, high, school
gr.traverse
Description: Students, teachers & environmental professionals communicate
about water quality issues and concerns in the Grand Traverse Bay
watershed at the northwest tip of the lower Michigan peninsula.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: nmcg@igc
gr.walpole
Description: Communications between students, teachers and environmental
professionals about water quality issues and concerns on Walpole Island,
home of First Nation Peoples, located in the St. Clair River/Great Lakes
watershed and the Lake St. Clair region.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: gree
keys: Canada, green, monitoring, education, indigenous
gr.watersheds
Description: Participants in this conference describe their watersheds in
terms of size, land-uses, specific problems and issues, elevation,
location of eventual drainage point and history.
Sponsor: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Contacts: mcromwell
keys: rivers, schools, education, monitoring, water, quality, high,
schools
** Org-Sponsored Conferences - Greens:
econ.green
Description: Green Economics
Contacts: gmarcus
gpca.initiativ
Description: Planning and coordinating activities by local Green parties
hoping to pass legislation locally or statewide. Open to Green Party
members.
Sponsor: Green Party Organizing Committee
Contacts: gmarcus
gpca.lit+media
Description: The Green Party Literature and Media Working Group develops
print and other media materials for use by local and statewide GPOC
groups in registering Green Party voters, to advertise Green Party
events, etc.
Sponsor: Green Party Organizing Committee
Contacts: gmarcus
gpty.canada
Description: Information and discussion about Green politics and Green
parties in Canada.
Contacts: web:skisby
keys: Green Party, Canada
gpty.eur.forum
Description: Forum for European Green Party members and other interested
folks.
Sponsor: European Green Party
Contacts: gn:chrisrose
keys: Green Party, Europe
gpty.eur.ref
Description: European green party reference conference.
Sponsor: European Green Party
Contacts: gn:chrisrose
keys: Green Party, Europe
gpty.intl
Description: International Green or Greens movement discussion and news.
Sponsor: Greens
Contacts: mitra
keys: Green, international
gpty.uk.forum
Description: Discussion about the UK Green Party and green politics in
England/United Kingdom
Sponsor: Greens
Contacts: gn:maccgreen
gpty.uk.ref
Description: Press releases and policy statements issued by local,
regional and national Green Parties in the UK so that:1) Green Party
Press Officers can rapidly exchange ideas for press releases 2) Party
views are more accessible to others.
Sponsor: Greens
Contacts: ahfrancis@gn
keys: green, party, politics, press, media, policy, manifesto, ecology,
sustainiability, environment, transport, energy
grn.party.news
Description: Press clippings about Green Party activities worldwide.
Contacts: socalgreens
keys: media, press, greens, Green Party, alternative politics, ecology
grns.cal.ref
Description: Organizing and reference materials to facilitate a political
approach based on ecological wisdom, respect for diversity, grassroots
democracy and economics,nonviolence, decentralization and global
responsibility.
Sponsor: The Greens
Contacts: gmarcus
keys: Greens, Green Party, California, ecology, politics, sustainable,
grassroots, decentralization
grns.confjoin
Description: Public place where Internet users can apply to join Greens
Movement conferences that are linked to an internet echo. Applications
and lists of echoed conferences will appears as topics in this
conference.
Sponsor: Greens Movement
Contacts: dmcmillen
keys: green, party, politics, gruenen, verde, greens
grns.oz.forum
Description: Communications channel for the New Zealand Green Party.
Sponsor: Green Party of New Zealand
Contacts: peg:agarton
keys: Green Party, Australia, New Zealand
grns.usa.arch
Description: Archival conference for online materials collected by the US
Greens Movement.
Sponsor: Greens
Contacts: gmarcus
keys: spaka
grns.usa.forum
Description: Discussion and information about the American Green movement.
Sponsor: Greens
Contacts: gmarcus
keys: green, networking, organizing, decentralization, peace, environment,
human, rights, values, grass, roots, social, justice, politics, USA
grns.usa.iwg
Description: United States International Working Group of the Greens.
Sponsor: Greens Movement
Contacts: gmarcus
grns.usa.ref
Description: Information and documents pertaining to the U.S. Greens
Movement: bibliographies, history, values, rorganization, past
activities, listings of Green Groups around the country.
Sponsor: Greens
Contacts: gmarcus, rpicklu
keys: greens, ecology, politics, energy, feminism, decentralization,
grass-roots, democracy, nonviolence
peg.nzgreen
Description: Originating from Australia, a conference about the Greens
Movement in New Zealand.
Sponsor: Pegasus Networks - Australia
Contacts: peg:support
pol.green.oz
Description: Discussion of specifically green issues in Australia.
Sponsor: Pegasus Networks - Australia
Contacts: peg:support
spaka.peace
Description: (archive) US Greens' consensus building on issues related to
peace, nonviolence, demilitaization, defense alternatives, security,
mediation and conflict resolution.
Sponsor: US Greens
Contacts: dialand, gaia, gm
keys: green, platform, peace, nonviolence, demilitarization, defense,
security, conflict, abuse, mediation, public
** Org-Sponsored Conferences - I*EARN:
iearn.environ
Description: To solicit information from students around the world that
pertains to environmental problems and programs for the purpose of
promoting environmental education through an I*EARN newsletter called
PLANETARY NOTIONS.
Sponsor: International Education and Research Network
Contacts: coldspring
keys: science, environment, ecology, education, student, youth, I*EARN
iearn.fp
Description: Dedicated to the study of the cultures, histories and current
issues facing the First Peoples from around the World. Open to all
I*EARN participants; others may request access from [peg:bcoppinger],
[igc:gates], [igc:dnafissian].
Sponsor: International Education and Resource Network
Contacts: peg:bcoppinger
keys: iearn, i*earn, first peoples, indigenous
iearn.guide
Description: To develop a guidebook about iearn, for use both by members
and by those seeking information about iearn. Topics will include items
in the table of contents and other items needing input.
Sponsor: International Education and Resource Network
Contacts: c21
iearn.rainfore
Description: Connects I*EARN participants with those on PBS Learning Link
& other online services interested in the study of tropical rainforests.
Part of the PLANET project.
Sponsor: International Education and Resource Network
Contacts: dschroeter
iearn.rf.actio
Description: This conference will offer a place to list and discuss
possible action steps for those involved in the I*EARN Rainforest
Project.
Sponsor: International Education and Resource Network
Contacts: ed1
keys: youth, education, tropic, rainforest, iearn
iearn.rf.info
Description: This conference will serve as a repository for information
resources for the I*EARN Rainforest Project.
Sponsor: International Education and Resource Network
Contacts: ed1
keys: education, youth, tropic, rainforest, iearn
iearn.trainers
Description: Issues involving technology training for teahcers, students,
and others within I*EARN. Participants are encouraged to share ideas on
successful training models, exchange tips on training techniques,
provide info, etc.
Sponsor: International Education and Resource Network
Contacts: ed1, kjevans
keys: education
iearn.uucp
Description: Discussion of uucp connections for schools; support group for
those handling uucp nodes.
Sponsor: International Education and Resource Network
Contacts: aalm ed1
keys: education, uucp, school
iearn.uv
Description: For the study and discussion of the effects of UV Radiation;
a place for project participants to post articles for hte Intl. UV
Magazine, ICARUS--the journal for this project. Open to all I*EARN
participants or by req. <peg:bcoppinger> <peg:bmcmahon>.
Sponsor: International Education and Research Network
Contacts: peg:bmcmahon
keys: iearn, i*earn, uv, ultraviolet radiation, ozone, uvb, icarus
iearn.ygroup
Description: To foster correspondence on the subject of youth groups. If
you are interested in writing or commenting on particular youth groups
in the world, please join this conference.
Sponsor: International Education and Resource Network
Contacts: rlavi, ed1
iearn.youth
Description: Communication by youth of their thoughts, ideas, and feelings
about topics of interest to them, to consider ways they can work
together for a better world using telecommunications.
Sponsor: International Education and Resource Network
Contacts: pcopen
keys: kids, education, students, schools, i*earn, elementary, secondary,
highschool
iearn.youthcan
Description: An environmental database and forum for youth groups
worldwide. A place to chat about various issues pertaining to the
environment, and to discuss projects and ideas for upcoming Youth CaN
events.
Sponsor: Youth Communication and Networking
Contacts: hcarey
keys: ecology, environment, youth, YouthCaN, IEARN, student, education
** Org-Sponsored Conferences - TERC:
gl.bb
Description: As the central bulletin board for the TERC Global Lab
project, gl.bb is for project news, brainstorming about ideas, proposing
collaborative projects, and anything that does not seem to fit the other
Global Lab conferences.
Sponsor: TERC - Global Lab Project
Contacts: cporter
keys: education, climate, change, ecology, teachers, scientists, terc,
global, lab, monitoring
gl.forum
Description: gl.forum will serve as a place where Global Lab teachers and
students can share short reports about environmental concerns and
research ideas arising from their evaluation of their study site, and as
a place to evaluate their Global Lab materials.
Sponsor: TERC
Contacts: tercsupport
keys: education, environment, science
gl.forum1
Description: This Global Lab project conference will be open from November
10, 1992 until the end of the month as a place where Global Lab teachers
and students can share reports about environmental concerns and research
ideas and evaluate Global Lab materials.
Sponsor: TERC - Global Lab Project
Contacts: tercsupport
keys: education, environment, science, teachers, students, TERC
gl.hello
Description: Introductory messages from TERC's Global Lab schools.
Sponsor: TERC - Global Lab Project
Contacts: tercsupport
keys: TERC, Global Lab
gl.ideabank
Description: gl.ideabank is a project-wide conference and will be open
until the end of February, 1993. It will serve as a place where Global
Lab teachers and students can share research ideas and well-developed
research proposals.
Sponsor: TERC
Contacts: tercsupport
keys: education, environment, science
gl.library
Description: Archival discussions, newsletters, curriculum materials,
bibliographies, and any relevant long documents related to the Global
Laboratory Project sponsored by TERC.
Sponsor: TERC - Global Lab Project
Contacts: bartinker
keys: education, terc, newsletters, monitoring
gl.ozone
Description: TERC Global Lab Project--discussion of ozone monitoring.
Sponsor: TERC - Global Lab Project
Contacts: tercsupport
keys: ozone, data, monitoring, education, climate, ecology, research,
scientists, teachers, youth
gl.plan
Description: This project-wide conference will serve as a place where
Global Lab Participants and Staff can work collaboratively to plan the
growth of the Global Laboratory Project.
Sponsor: TERC
Contacts: tercsupport
keys: education, environment, ecology, science, monitoring, global, lab,
terc
gl.planet
Description: This is a project-wide conference and will remain open for
the duration of the Global Lab Project. It will serve as a place where
Global Lab Participants can contribute original articles to be posted on
The Global Laboratory's electronic journal.
Sponsor: TERC
Contacts: tercsupport
keys: education, environment, ecology, science, monitoring, global, lab,
terc
gl.reflections
Description: Project-wide conference and will remain open for the duration
of the Global Lab Project. It will serve as a place where Global Lab
teachers can reflect on their involvement in the project.
Contacts: tercsupport
keys: education, environment, ecology, science, monitoring, global, lab,
terc
(gl.reflection)
** Org-Sponsored Conferences - United Nations:
child.crc
Description: UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Sponsor: United Nation's Childrens Fund
Contacts: mhamed
keys: children, war, violence, human, rights
child.salon
Description: ChildNet Salon is a Marketplace of ideas and knowledge
contributed by the members of ChildNet.
Sponsor: United Nations Children's Fund
Contacts: unicefna
keys: children, CHILDNET, international
child.summit
Description: For all those interested in follow-up activities to the 1990
World Summit for children.Please use this forum to discuss countries'
progress on National Programmes of Action and other activities carried
out as follow-up to the World Summit.
Sponsor: United Nations Children's Fund
Contacts: gejenkins
keys: child, summit, programmes, national
citnet
Description: Information provided by U.S. Citizen's Network on UNCED, as
well as a forum for discussion of Citizen's Network projects.
Sponsor: Citizens' Network on UNCED
Contacts: rpollard
cnued.document
Description: UNCED documents in French (archive).
Sponsor: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
Contacts: jpasztor
keys: United, Nations, Conference, Environment, Development
cnumad.documentos
Description: UNCED documents in Spanish. (archive)
Sponsor: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
Contacts: jpasztor
keys: United, Nations, Conference, Environment, Development
en.unced
Description: (archived) This conference provides communications from the
UNCED Secretariat, as well as information about the UNCED-related
activities of NGO's and others.
Sponsor: U.N. Conference on the Environment & Dev't
Contacts: econet
en.unced.general
Description: A public forum for the sharing of ideas, plans, and
activities in preparation for UNCED and beyond. UNCED is not in charge
of this conference, nor will it take responsibility for providing
official documents.
Sponsor: U.N. Conference on the Environment & Dev't
Contacts: econet
en.unced.infox
Description: Investigates the process of getting UNCED-related information
disseminated around the globe using APC Networks as a communications
tool.
Sponsor: U.N. Conference on the Environment & Dev't
Contacts: econet
keys: UNCED, information
en.unced.readi
Description: Schedule inforamtion concerning events related to the 1992
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. (archive)
Sponsor: Rapid Environment and Development Information Timetable
Contacts: rpollard
en.unced.topic
Description: (Archived) Structured access to information on the 1992 UN
Conference on the Environment and Development according to the format of
the UNCED agenda. No topics after 1/91.
Sponsor: U.N. Conference on the Environment and Dev't
Contacts: rpollard
keys: UNCED, information, development
inc.climate
Description: Official documents and agendas for meetings of the
Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on
Climate Change (INC). Currently, documents are included from all
sessions of INC, including the final text of the Convention.
Sponsor: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
Contacts: unced
keys: climate, INC, UNCED, convention, greenhouse, carbon, dioxide
inc.desert
Description: General information on the intergovernmental negotiating
committee for a convention to combat desertification and/or drought.
Contacts: ax:kimo
keys: semi-arid, unced, africa
ngls.news
Description: Quarterly newsletter of the United National Non-Govermental
Liaison Service
Sponsor: United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service
keys: UN, nations, third, development, africa, women, trade, debt,
international, north-south, economic, food, environment, ngo, adjustment
un.dpi
Description: Contains press releases and other information from the United
Nations Department of Public Information.
Contacts: efarwell
keys: United, Nations, Development, international
un.general
Description: Information about and from the United Nations, in general.
Contacts: hrcoord
un.habitat.gen
Description: For proceedings, documentation and discussion related to the
United Nations conferences on Habitat.
Contacts: lgoree
un.reform
Description: To exchange information about initiatives, events and
proposals related to UN reform, especially in association with the 50th
Anniversary of the UN in 1995.
Contacts: cdil
keys: UN, human rights, peace, international, global, governance,
disarmament, law
un.sids
Description: Information from the World Conference on Sustainable
Development of Small Island Developing States. The World Conference is
currently scheduled for April 1994 on Barbados in the eastern Caribbean.
Sponsor: United Nations
Contacts: mpeirano
keys: United Nations, UN, U.N., Small Island Developing States, World
Conference, sustainable
un.socdev.docs
Description: Contains UN documents relating to the 1995 World Summit for
Social Development and the meetings of its Preparatory Committee. It is
a read-only conference. Documents will be posted as they become
available, in English, French and Spanish.
Sponsor: United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service
Contacts: ngls
keys: Social, Development, United Nations, Economics, Poverty
un.socsummit
Description: Documentation pertaining to the 1995 United Nations
conference on Social Development to be held in Copenhagen.
Sponsor: United Nations
Contacts: ilet
un.wcw.doc.eng
Description: Official UN documents for the Fourth World Conference on
Women. In English.
Sponsor: UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service
Contacts: ngls/efarwell
keys: United Nations documents; 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women,
Beijing, China.
un.wcw.doc.esp
Description: Official UN documents for the Fourth World Conference on
Women. In Spanish.
Sponsor: UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service
Contacts: ngls/efarwell
keys: United Nations documents; 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women.
Beijing, China.
un.wcw.doc.fra
Description: Official UN documents for the Fourth World Conference on
Women. In French.
Sponsor: UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service
Contacts: ngls/efarwell
keys: United Nations documents; 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women,
Beijing, China.
unced.aseed
Description: For the EYFA campaign of coordinated events around UNCED this
year.
Sponsor: Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development
Contacts: gn:eyfa
unced.canada
Description: Exchange of information and opinion about UNCED from Canada.
Sponsor: U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development
Contacts: web:spider
keys: canada, unced, development, environment, united, nations
unhr.documents
Description: Contains official United National documents pertaining to
human rights.
Contacts: hrcoord
unhr.general
Description: General information about the United Natios Human Rights
conference, also called World Conference on Human Rights (WCHR).
Contacts: hrcoord
unhr.news
Description: News about the United Nations World Conference on Human
Rights.
Contacts: hrcoord
unic.news
Description: News and reports from the United Nations Information Center
in Sydney, Australia.
Sponsor: United Nations
unrisd.docs.en
Description: The United Nations Research Institute on Social Development
(UNRISD) will be loading documents that they have prepared in for the
United Nations World Summit on Social Development (WSSD), to be held in
Copenhagen. This is a Read-Only conference.
Contacts: unrisd@gn
keys: publications, reports, integration, poverty, employment, debt, aid,
SAP, security
water.icwe
Description: Preparatory documentation for the International Conference on
Water and the Environment (ICWE), held in Dublin, Ireland, 26-31
January, 1992.
Sponsor: International Conference on Water and the Environment
Contacts: unced
keys:
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diakonia.fika
Description: Information och utbyte av erfarenheter mellan v{rldsdelarna.
S}dant som vi inte kan snacka om eftersom vi inte fikar tillsammans.
Contacts: npaulsson@nn
indig.planning
Description: Internal conference for people involved in international
networking of native american and indigenous groups; coordination of
online activities pertaining to indigenous peoples.
Contacts: gtrujillo
ombuds.archive
Description: This is a private conference for the archieves of Ombuds
documents.
Sponsor: Ombuds Associations
Contacts: jrhelie
** APC Internal Conferences:
apc.training
Description: Semi-private conference where people developing and
implementing training programs in the use of the APC system share their
experience and curricula.
Sponsor: Association for Progressive Communications
Contacts: jillaine
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bitl.ecolog
Description: A list, maintained for members of the Ecological Society of
America (ESA), for distribution and archiving of information of interest
to ESA members, such as
Sponsor: IGC Conservation Biology Desk
Contacts: consdesk
keys: biodiversity ecology biology jobs environment announcememnts
list.communet
Description: Community and Civic Network Discussion List
Contacts: support
keys: computer, network, freenets
list.forest
Description: Mailinglist for members of the International Union of
Forestry Research Organizations and others interested in the forestry
sciences.
Contacts: support
keys: forest, tree, boreal, taiga, temperate, tropical, science, events,
jobs
list.labor
Description: Echo of Internet mailing list for people interested in labor
union issues.
Sponsor: LaborNet
Contacts: labornet
keys: labour
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safrica.drough
Description: Discussion of the southern African drought situation.
Originates from Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) BBS.
Contacts: web:arni
keys: africa, hunger, harvest
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